Booz Allen Hamilton will target government and commercial clients in Qatar in the information technology, cybersecurity, transportation and select infrastructure sectors. The McLean, Va.-based firm said it received the Qatari government’s approval to conduct business in that country. Qatar placed 28th out of 142 countries surveyed in the World Economic Forum’s global information and communications [...]
Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corp. have each signed agreements with Brazil-based companies to pursue opportunities in precision-machining, targeting the global aerospace and defense sectors. Boeing said the agreements outline work packages for aluminum components and subassemblies with GNS Industry and Trade and RCS Precision Marching and Maintenance. GNS and RCS specialize in this type of [...]
BAE Systems Inc., the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary, has finished constructing a technology manufacturing center in Austin, Texas for the electronic systems sector. The company said nearly 525 employees work in the Austin region and that this region has potential for an increasing number of jobs in the high-tech sector. The center will produce [...]
HP Enterprise Services has won a prime position on a potential $39.8 million Defense Information Systems Agency cybersecurity program, the company announced Friday. Under the seven-year contract awarded through the Encore II vehicle, the company will provide analytics services and help assess and combat vulnerabilities in Defense Department enterprise networks and connected information technology systems. [...]
Intelligent Decisions Inc. has won an Air Force contract to supply Panasonic Toughbooks to the branch’s bases worldwide, the company announced Thursday. The Air Force will receive Toughbook 31 fully-rugged notebooks and Toughbook 53 semi-rugged notebooks. President and CEO Harry Martin said the Toughbooks meet strict and wide-ranging Air Force requirements and will help military technicians. [...]
ITT Exelis, GeoEye and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to prepare the GeoEye-2 satellite for its launch and full operation by 2013. Exelis announced Tuesday it has delivered GeoEye’s imaging system for the satellite to Lockheed Martin’s space systems company in Sunnyvale, Calif. The McLean, Va.-based firm said the second-generation satellite will provide customers government, commercial and [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined CGI to break ground for the company’s Belton, Texas-based information technology services delivery facility. The company said it is investing $7 million to build the 40,000-square-foot Onshore IT Services Delivery Center and received a $180,924 grant from the Texas Skills Development Fund Grant. CGI President of U.S. Operations George Schindler said the center will create [...]
