The Pentagon has offered Turkey the opportunity to purchase the latest version of their Patriot air-defense missile as part of an arms package that will include up to 290 missiles including 72 PAC-3 models and communications gear. The package is valued at up to $7.8 billion. Congress has been notified and has 30 days to [...]

James I. Cash Jr., Ph.D., emeritus James E. Robison professor at the Harvard Business School is stepping down from Microsoft’s board of directions. He cites pressure from personal and professional commitments as the reason. Cash, who has been with the board since 2001, stated that he has enjoyed working with the other members. With his [...]

Charlottesville, VA based Sperry Maine business unit, under Northrop Grumman, has been awarded a contract to furnish navigation systems to four new NAPA 500-ton patrol vessels for the Brazil navy. The contract specifies options to furnish six more vessels. The first two vessels in the same class were also outfitted by Sperry Maine, to be [...]

Raytheon has bought New England based, BBN Technologies. BBN has played an integral role in steps leading to the creation of the Internet and utilization of the same, including having a hand in creating the first modem, router, and email. The firm is also a major contributor to many Department of Defense research projects, most [...]

Raytheon was among the exhibitors at Empire Challenge 09, a joint military demonstration that aimed to further the cohesion between U.S. and coalition forces in the collection and utilization of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information. At the event the contractor unveiled many firsts including a multi-intelligence tool, MULTI-INT Exploitation Tool (MIETool). MIETool provides an [...]

Raytheon has announced the release of a new version of its High-Speed Guard cross-domain information-sharing solution aimed at government organizations. The firm promises that the latest version will be more economical, reducing hardware costs up to 75 percent and that it will be up to 625 percent faster, with peak performance increased to 5 gigabytes [...]

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Specialty Center Acquisitions (NAVFAC SCAN) in Port Hueneme, CA, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), has awarded Chantilly based, American Systems a task order worth approximately $23.5 million as part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award already in place. The task order is firm-fixed price and calls for [...]

Cenzic Inc. has announced the cybersecurity initiative, GovShield ™ which aims to protect the government Web infrastructure from potential attackers. The program will be overseen by David Kimball, who brings 20 years of experience to the position. GovShield will support government agencies in complying with federal regulations, including the Federal Information Security Management ACT (FISMA) [...]

Former Secretary of the Air Force, Michael W. Wynne, has been appointed to the advisory board of Frederick, Maryland based, Widearea Systems. The firm is a provider of unified communications solutions and services. Wynne’s previous experience includes seven years in the Air Force, where he was an assistant professor of astronautics at the US Air [...]

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp., has joined the heads of both Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in accepting a $1 per year salary for fiscal 2010. In fiscal 2009 he was paid $1 million. Ellison, who founded the company in 1977, has ownership of 23.4 percent of Oracle’s outstanding shares, as of July, which [...]