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Mike Lawrie, chairman, president and CEO of DXC Technology, has said the company saw a 13 percent growth in its cloud business during the third quarter of fiscal 2018 that ended Dec. 31, CRN reported Friday. Lawrie told analysts Thursday that DXC has introduced five centers worldwide to advance digital transformation efforts and experienced progress […] More

BAE Systems, Harris and MBDA‘s U.K. business have collaborated on ground-based tests that sought to demonstrate the release of a full-sized payload from an aircraft cargo bay. A team of engineers used BAE’s test facility in Warton, England, to conduct full-scale ground trials in an effort to better understand the aircraft bay environment, the British defense company said […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $64.1 million contract to Tekla Research and a $57.4 million contract to Avian-Precise Co. for a range of support services to the Naval Air Systems Command’s Systems Engineering Department. The Defense Department said Friday Tekla will perform up to 835,200 hours of systems specialty engineering and technical work while Avian-Precise will conduct up to 739,200 hours of sustaining engineering, […] More

Noblis seeks to expand its operations in San Antonio, Texas from 21 employees to about 125 personnel in the next two to three years, My San Antonio reported Thursday. Mike Cameron, director of cyber solutions at Noblis, said the Virginia-based research and technology nonprofit aims to conduct more work related to artificial intelligence, data science and cybersecurity at […] More

Johnson Controls‘ federal systems business has signed a $40 million energy savings performance contract with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center to help implement energy conservation measures at a military base located in the Marshall Islands. The company said Thursday it will design, implement and manage an islandwide solar photovoltaic, lithium-ion battery storage and microgrid control […] More

BAE Systems has secured a contract from Lockheed Martin to modernize head-up displays of the United Arab Emirates’ F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. The British defense contractor said Thursday it will replace the fleet’s analog HUDs with digital displays using its Digital Light Engine technology. Lockheed received a potential $1.6 billion order from UAE in November 2017 to upgrade the […] More

Lockheed Martin has received multiple contracts from ExxonMobil to design, build and integrate an automation control system to support the international oil and gas company’s plant operations. Both companies have worked to develop a proof-of-concept system as part of a joint initiative that began two years ago, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the PoC phase, Lockheed also produced a base design and […] More

Northrop Grumman has landed a potential $75 million  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help Saudi Arabia’s warfighters simulate threats with a company-built Joint Threat Emitter system. JTE is designed to generate a battlespace environment that facilitates training of military personnel to identify and address enemy missile and artillery threats, Northrop said Thursday. The company developed the system to be reprogrammable […] More

Corps Solutions has received a $44.4 million contract from to provide support services to U.S. Marine Corps range control facilities. The Defense Department said Thursday that USMC will obligate $6.8 million in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds for the first delivery order under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will conduct base work at locations in Arizona, Virginia, California, Georgia, Hawaii, […] More

Boeing has received a potential $20.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators designed to target concrete bunkers and tunnels. The service branch will obligate the full contract amount from its fiscal 2016 production funds at the time of award and the company will perform work through July 31, 2020, […] More

A team of Iron Mountain and Chenega Corp.‘s applied solutions subsidiary has received a five-year contract for offsite records management storage and services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Both companies will help BOP manage, transport, digitize, shred and provide special project services for records containing personal, medical and parole information on inmates, Iron Mountain said Thursday. The contract […] More