TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) will update and integrate the U.S. Air Force‘s KC-135 aircrew training platforms to the service branch™s Distributed Training Center Network, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contract covers updates to the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Saudi Arabia’s proposed $154.9 million purchase of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) upgraded MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems has received approval from the U.S. government, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the potential foreign mili...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) will provide its API Management platform to the U.K. meteorological office to support cloud- and mobile-based weather data services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the technology works to bolster data privacy and customer experience and facili...
Feb. 8 – Feb. 12 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Many reasons have been put forth as to why global financial markets continue to be in turmoil but this week showed there may be no end in sight to this period of volatility that has carried...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will provide support to U.S. Navy™s submarine and surface ship acoustical tests under a $47 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will produce analysis and reports of acoustics trials data through the contract’s 12-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 — Whitney, Bradley & Brown has appointed Jeffrey Cohen, a 26-year U.S. Air Force veteran, as the company’s vice president of capture and proposals, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. WBB said Tuesday Cohen has worked on proposal management and business development for more than three de...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) endorse information governance strategy to companies in an effort to help deter risks in big data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “We’re working to accelerate compliance and IG with legacy data clean-up and reducing redundant, obso...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” A rocket built by the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) carried a national security payload to space as part of the NROL-45 mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. United Launch Alliance said Wednesday an Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) RS-68A engi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal civilian business group, believes that DevOps can drive efficiency and agility in federal information technology as agencies work toward IT modernization, ExecutiveGov reported Thursday. “As federal agencies modernize their appli...
The GovCon Index fell victim to across-the-board selloffs in global financial markets Thursday with a decline of 2.113 percent to 68.747, a figure that puts the Index at a decline of 11.34 percent from the start of the year. Still in a correction, Thursday’s plunge sent the GCI below 70 for the second time this...
