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A General Dynamics business unit has received a multi-year contract from Smith & Wesson to manufacture hammer-forged gun barrels for integration with the latter’s M&P pistol. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems will produce the gun barrels for the pistol that Smith & Wesson proposed to the U.S. Army in order to compete for the […] More
Charles River Analytics has been awarded a $400,000 contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a multi-source naval analytics and analytic services framework for warfighting environments as part of the Navy‘s branch-wide tactical cloud computing project. The Navy is developing its Tactical Cloud Reference Implementation to create on-demand access for shared sensors and computing resources, Charles River said Wednesday. […] More
General Dynamics‘ European land systems unit has selected GKN Aerospace to supply the British military with fuel tanks for the Ajax ground vehicle units under a $29.6 million contract throughout 2023. The fuel tanks will be manufactured and produced with self-seal technology and explosion suppression foam in an effort to improve vehicle durability, GKN Aerospace said Tuesday. General Dynamics landed a […] More
A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential five-year, $13.7 million contract to support environmental surveillance, education and research activities at an Energy Department facility in Idaho. HII said Wednesday its unit SN3 will continue to provide ESER services to the department’s Idaho operations office in partnership with Wastren Advantage. The contract has […] More
Purple Line Transit Partners — a team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line — has been chosen for the $2 billion Purple Line Light Rail Project in Maryland. Fluor said Wednesday the team will provide design, construction, financing, operations and maintenance services to the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transit […] More
The U.S. Postal Service has asked industry to provide information on a centralized analytics software platform that will work to carry out machine learning methods and provide USPS data-driven insights for use in decision-making. USPS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Feb. 16 that it will consider commercial-off-the-shelf analytics tools that can be customized to […] More
The Raytheon-sponsored 2016 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for 2016 will start Monday in an initiative to educate and develop both current talent and future generations of cybersecurity workers. “Now more than ever before, the U.S. and countries around the world are connected by global information networks,” David Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services unit, said in a […] More
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has named former Boeing Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney as its new senior adviser to provide support for its investment and value-creation strategies. McNerney brings decades worth of experience in management while he held senior leadership positions for a number of global companies, CD&R said Wednesday. “His exceptional record is one grounded […] More
Harris Corp. has been chosen for the Defense Department‘s Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of the company’s partnership with Spatial Data Integrations under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s mentor-protege program. Harris said Wednesday it mentored the woman-owned company in geospatial content management, open source data collection and quality control strategies. North Carolina Central University is also part of the mentor-protege team and has […] More
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has appointed Mark Scoles, a partner-in-charge at Grant Thornton‘s accounting principles group, to its Emerging Issues Task Force. FASB is an independent nonprofit organization in the private sector that establishes accounting and reporting standards for companies and organizations that follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Scoles will assume his role on FASB’s EITF on March […] More
Brian Mathis, a 30-year environmental services veteran, has been appointed vice president of northwest operations at SN3, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries. His responsibilities will include oversight of SN3’s work at the Energy Department-run Hanford nuclear reservation complex in Washington and at the Idaho National Laboratory, HII said Wednesday. “Brian brings a wealth of knowledge, talents and management skills […] More
Vienna, Va.-based Internet of Things security provider PFP Cybersecurity has added one new member to its board of directors and three slots to its board of advisers. The company said Monday that ThreatQuotient CEO John Czupak joined the board of directors as part of the slate of appointments intended to help guide PFP’s strategy in the Internet of Things Market. New advisory board […] More
