A joint venture led by AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has received a three-year, $928 million contract extension from the Energy Department to oversee the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Nuclear Waste Partnership will continue to operate and manage the WIPP underground repository built to dispose of transuranic radioactive waste materia...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has made a series of leadership changes after Chief Operating Officer Gloria Flach and Sid Ashworth, corporate vice president for government relations, announced plans to retire by the end of December. Kathy Warden, corporate VP and president of Northrop™s mission systems business, will transition to new roles as pr...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) closed up 0.478 percent to 106.661. Advancing shares outpaced declining 3 to 1. The major indices barely changed on the day as Janet Yellen gave a caution to tightening monetary too gradually. The S&P500 closed at 2,496.84 up 0.01 percent, while the DJIA fell 0.05 percent to 22,284...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a patent on an additive manufacturing process that works to produce three-dimensional objects from metals in a gaseous state, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 19. The company said Sept. 18 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the patent for the “Add...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Space Systems Loral will support Innoflight in efforts to develop a simulation environment that will work to host cybersecurity tests on U.S. Air Force payloads aboard commercial satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. SSL said Sept. 19 the team will develop the simulation platform for the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will conduct a study on soldier vulnerability in extreme conditions under a potential $49.5 million contract from the U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Thursday Johns Hopkins APL will perform work throug...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business is anticipated to deliver the first prototypes of the updated M1 and M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks to the U.S. Army by the end of September, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Task and Purpose reported Friday the service branch aims to field t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will provide continued in-service support for a remotely controlled vehicle that the U.K. ministry of defense’s special projects search and countermeasures team uses for explosive ordnance disposal operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday it rec...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) reversed its six-day positive streak to close down 0.094 percent to 106.232. Advancing and declining shares were evenly split on the day. All the indices ended the day lower with The S&P500 down 0.22 percent to 2,496.66, while the DJIA fell 0.24 percent to 22,296.09, and the NASDAQ Comp...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 25, 2017 ” Greg Touhill, president of Cyxtera Technologies‘ federal group, has cautioned against data overclassification as it will hamper government efforts to develop strategies to mitigate and respond to cybersecurity threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 14. MeriTalk reported Sept. 13 the fo...
