El SEGUNDO, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ — Wyle has targeted an expansion of its human health and performance related services to a wide range of Federal agencies and commercial customers based on the success the company has had in the past 40 years providing life sciences and other advanced human support services to the […]

SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Science Applications International Corporation today announced it has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology to produce and deliver four SAIC Tsunami Buoy (STB) systems. The contract includes options for production and delivery of an additional five buoys that may be exercised […]

DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced the airline’s order for four 777-300ER (Extended Range) and four 787-8 Dreamliner airplanes at a signing ceremony in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, which began as a government-owned national carrier in 1972, became Bangladesh’s largest public limited […]

HARTFORD, Conn., April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — United Technologies Corp. today reported first quarter 2008 earnings per share of $1.03 and net income of $1.0 billion, up 26 percent and 22 percent, respectively, over the year ago first quarter. Results for the current quarter include a $0.02 per share impact for restructuring costs. In […]

SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Science Applications International Corporation announced today it has been awarded a task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command located in San Diego, to support the Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). This single-award contract […]

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics Itronix, an industry leading maker of rugged notebook computers, has donated several rugged GoBook XR-1 notebooks to the Zambezi Expedition 2008: Fighting Malaria on the “River of Life.” The XR-1 computers will be used for communications and to edit photography and short videos documenting […]

WASHINGTON, March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has selected the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center. The total maximum value of the cost, no-fee contract is approximately $39 million over the five-year contract period.
The archive center […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin has achieved a key milestone in the development of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) with the successful completion of static loads testing of the first satellite in the program constellation. MUOS will provide significantly improved and assured communications for U.S. mobile warfighters.
The test, […]