Weekly Roundup August 14 – August 18 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week the GovCon industry witnessed a number of significant contract awards, many of which focused on R&D, space, IT services and missile defense. Let’s take a quick lo...
India has approved a deal to buy six additional Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Apache helicopters for approximately $654.6 million, Reuters reported Thursday. India™s defense acquisition council on Thursday cleared the deal that also covers related equipment, spares, weapons, ammunition and training support. The decision came nearly two year...
CORAL SEA (Aug. 16, 2017) An AV-8B Harrier II, assigned to the “Tomcats” of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311, performs a vertical short takeoff and land (V/STOL) from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). VMA-311 is concluding its “farewell tour” with the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary S...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 17, 2017 ” Timothy Lamb, president of Chenega‘s security strategic business unit, has said the company works to understand the evolving security services environment as it goes beyond traditional external threats due to technological and cultural changes. “Our subject matter experts must think in terms o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 17, 2017 ” Roger Krone, CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, has said at an earnings call that he sees potential delays in contract awards and programs due to the Trump administration’s current pace of hiring for top Defense Department positions, ExecutiveBiz re...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 17, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has entered into a partnership with DLT Solutions to help increase public sector adoption of open source analytics technologies in efforts to generate insight from data, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 10. DLT said Aug. 9 the collaboration is centered on the DLT AnalyticsStack of...
Frederick Nohmer, formerly vice president of operations at IAP Worldwide Services‘ global support services division, has been named chief operating officer of Janus Global Operations. JGO said Thursday Nohmer will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the logistics and stability services contractor’s projects in approximately 2...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a $115.3 million contract modification to perform additional lead yard services, development studies and design support for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class attack submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat will maintain, update and support submarine design and data as well as ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347HN31QX7g Marines with 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force-8 conduct a Mechanized Assault Course during Integrated Training Exercise 5-17 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 9, 2017....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 16, 2017 ” Diane Gongaware, vice president for U.S. public sector services at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said government agencies could benefit from the emergence of connected devices by employing an information technology network that serves to generate insights from growing data workloads, Executi...
