Magellan Health Acquires Armed Forces Services Corp. in Federal, Military Market Push Scottsdale, Arizona-based healthcare management company Magellan Health has closed a deal of an undisclosed sum to acquire Armed Forces Services Corp., a behavioral health and specialty services provider for federal government agencies and the U…

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Louis Berger Forms US Operations Through Ammann & Whitney, Louis Berger Group Combination Louis Berger has merged its Ammann & Whitney and Louis Berger Group operating companies to establish a new business entity that will serve U.S. clients worldwide. Louis Berger U.S. will maintain the Ammann & Whitney name for a division specialized in long-span bridge engineering, Louis Berger said Tuesday…

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Lockheed to Extend Support for Canada’s Victoria-Class Submarine Fire Control Tech Lockheed Martin has received a $14.5 million contract to perform support work on the fire control system of four Victoria-class submarines and ground-based team trainers for the Canadian navy. The company said Tuesday it will provide in-service and field service, obsolescence management and technical investigations support under the contract…

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FireEye, Exabeam Form IT Security Threat Mgmt Partnership Exabeam has joined the FireEye Cyber Security Coalition, a partnership that seeks to utilize threat intelligence through the FireEye Global Threat Management Platform to support customer security environments…

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OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian John Goolgasian, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency source operations and management director, has joined OGSystems as the company aims to further its geospatial analytics offerings. Goolgasian, who was also director of the Foundation GEOINT Group in Source, will serve as an associate partner at OGSystems, the company said Tuesday…

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State Dept OKs $140M Sale of Raytheon Seasparrow Missiles & Services to Chile The State Department has approved Chile’s request to acquire $140.1 million in Raytheon (NYSE:RTN)-manufactured Evolved Seasparrow Missiles and related services from the U.S. government under a foreign military sales agreement between both countries…

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State Dept Clears $65M SM-2 Block IIIB Missile Sale to South Korea The State Department has given South Korea the go-ahead to procure SM-2 Block IIIB Standard missiles and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $65 million foreign military sales agreement…

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Gen. David Goldfein Assumes Top Air Force Uniformed Post The Defense Department officially sworn in Gen. David Goldfein as the 21st chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force during a ceremony held Friday at the Pentagon. He is responsible for overseeing the service branch’s efforts to fully train and equip nearly 660,000 active-duty, civilian and reserve personnel, the Air Force said Friday…

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NEOS Partners With Lockheed to Develop Sensor for Aerial Natural Resource Detection Lockheed Martin and NEOS have teamed up to develop a sensor designed to detect oil, minerals, gas and other natural resources underneath the earth’s surface. Lockheed has started to build a prototype of the Full Tensor Gradiometry Plus remote sensing platform that works to track natural resources from the air through the use of NEOS’ aircraft fleet, NEOS said Wednesday…

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Mark Fox Named Customer Affairs VP for Huntington Ingalls’ Newport News Shipbuilding Division Mark Fox, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate vice president of customer affairs at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will succeed Evan “Marty” Chanik, also a retired Navy vice admiral who is scheduled to retire in October, in the role and will directly report to Mitch Waldman, corporate VP of HII’s government and customer relations, HII said Tuesday…

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Harris Delivers Comms, Connectivity Services to Support NASA Juno Mission on Jupiter Harris has provided communications and monitoring connectivity to support the NASA mission to insert the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft into an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Harris said Tuesday a team of more than 100 employees supported operations, maintenance and engineering work for the space agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network…

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