Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 06/20/2016

Federal Highway Administration Taps Leidos for $75M Technical Support IDIQ

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been awarded a five-year, $75 million contract to provide technical services for the Federal Highway Administration’s Saxton transportation operations laboratory and the office of operations research and development…

Dan Allen: Serco to Update Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radar Tech at U.S. Air Base in Greenland

Serco‘s North American subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $38 million contract to modernize the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse protection of Ballistic Missile Early Warnings Systems at Thule Air Base in Greenland…

Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe to Extend Intell Analytics Support for DIA

DigitalGlobe aims to help the Defense Intelligence Agency develop tools for analysis of mission-critical data from multiple sources as part of a potential five-year, $55 million contract DIA awarded last week…

FDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic’s Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool

Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections…

Ashton Carter: Pentagon’s Bug Bounty Program Uncovers 138 ‘Legitimate’ System Vulnerabilities

The Defense Department received at least one vulnerability report from more than 250 ethical hackers who took part in the department’s bug bounty program that occurred from April 18 to May 12, DoD News reported Friday…

Calibre Enters Partnership With Triple-i for Veterans Affairs IT Services IDIQ

Calibre has partnered with Information Innovators Inc. to offer a range of information technology and project management services under the Department of Veteran Affairs‘ Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle…

Gen. David Goldfein: Air Force Should Disclose Value of B-21 Bomber Aircraft Devt Contract

Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff, has said he agrees with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) that the service branch should disclose the value of the B-21 Long-Range Strike Bomber contract, Breaking Defense reported Thursday…

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus: Super Hornet Cost Could Rise Without Foreign Sales

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has warned that the cost of Boeing‘s Super Hornet could spike if the U.S. government does not approve pending foreign sales of the multirole fighter aircraft, Reuters reported Sunday…

Army Corps of Engineers to Relocate Baltimore District Headquarters to Newly Leased Space

The General Services Administration has awarded a potential 15-year lease to BE, 2&10 LLC to relocate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Baltimore district headquarters to 2 Hopkins Plaza in the city’s central business district…

Moov Registers as Official Govt Contractor, to Offer Agencies Patented Wearable Fitness Device

Mountain View, California-based consumer electronics company Moov has registered to become an official government contractor and will offer the company’s patented wearable fitness device in the public sector…

Online Trust Alliance Names Top Consumer-Facing Sites in Data Security, Privacy

Online Trust Alliance‘s 2016 Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll has included the online federal health insurance exchange portal and the White House’s official website on a list of top sites based on OTA’s consumer protection, data security and privacy criteria…