Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) has agreed to buy Airbus™ communications business through the acquisition of the latter™s Plant Holdings subsidiary for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand 911 software offerings. Airbus DS Communications operates under Plant Holdings and provides command center software platforms that work to fi...
Doug Wagoner, president of services and solutions sector at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), will step down from his role at the Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor on Sept. 1. Dan Harris, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s sector operations and plann...
Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) has joined the list of awardees on a potential $409 million contract to research and develop thermal, power and controls technologies for future U.S. Air Force platforms and engines. The Defense Department said Friday Honeywell will perform work under the Next Generation Thermal, Powe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 28, 2017 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received recognition as one of the top 100 defense firms in the world in a list released by Defense News based on defense-related annual revenue, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Tuesday it climbed in the annual ranking from No. 46 to No. 39, with...
Weekly Roundup July 24 – July 28 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Open source intelligence (OSINT), as described in a previous Weekly Round Up column, is an incredibly powerful research methodology that is already being used by forward looking compa...
The former government services business of Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) that private equity firm Veritas Capital acquired in April has adopted the name Peraton after temporarily operating as MHVC Acquisition Corp. Peraton said Friday its new name derives from the concept that the company supports government customer missions that are crit...
The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit a potential 10-year, $155 million contract to provide ground-based flight and mission operations support for the Landsat 8 satellite. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also develop and integrate a Landsat multisatellite operations facility at Goddard Space Flight ...
CORAL SEA (July 27, 2017) An AV-8B Harrier II, assigned to the “Tomcats” of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311, takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance partnership and be a ready...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2017 ” Jones Tallent, chief financial officer of Merlin International, has said the company is building on its work in the federal marketplace, particularly in the government healthcare sector, where it provides cybersecurity and information technology products and services. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has partnered with CyberSponse to integrate the latter’s automated incident response and security orchestration technology into the defense company’s managed security services, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Raytheon said Tuesday its Virtual-Security ...
