TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2016 ” The Professional Services Council has elected PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal business unit, to serve on its board of directors for another three years, GovCon Executive reported Dec. 23. Puvvada was also appointed as a new member on its executive committee and as chairman of PS...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded Engility (NYSE: EGL) a $46.3 million contract option to provide support services to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s remote sensing systems directorate, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Engility will conduct systems engineering and integration controls, enter...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has stated that the government’s current satellite communications procurement model is fragmented and unable to address new complex demand, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 22. “The government should no longer fol...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index moved higher Thursday on broad gains among defense primes and services contractors as U.S. stocks closed slightly lower in a mostly quiet penultimate trading session for 2016. Investors continued their post-election focus on defense and other GovCon stocks, while the S&P 500 composite index turned ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” A teaming arrangement between Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NLign Analytics has received the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award from the Defense Department for the companies’ technical support for the F-35 program, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and 17 small businesses have formed a team to bid for a contract to maintain U.S. Army training devices and digital ranges across the globe, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Raytheon said Tuesday ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $17.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for system software and engineering services in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter system, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company will provide software design and system integration, qualification testing...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Jeff Sorenson, head of A.T. Kearney‘s public sector and defense services segment, has said President-elect Donald Trump’s military expansion plans could spur growth in the defense sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Sorenson stated that potential policies under the next administration could help ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Janus Global Operations has destroyed 1, 246 landmines and other unexploded ordnance across the Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniyah provinces of Kurdistan in Iraq as part of a demining project with the Iraqi-Kurdistan Mine Action Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said D...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index tumbled Wednesday on notable declines by large defense and government services primes as U.S. stocks also fell with every major sector in negative territory to damper hopes of a Dow Jones Industrial Average close above 20, 000 before the year’s end. Two out of 30 GovCon Index stocks gained and no...
