Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index ended its four-day post-election gain streak with a 1-percent decline Tuesday as investors sold defense shares that had surged since Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory Nov. 8. In contrast, U.S. stocks were lifted Tuesday on bounces in technology and energy shares as the l...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has launched its new Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) commercial imaging satellite onboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The WorldView-4 satellite will work to increase the number of images in DigitalGlobe’s co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) and NASA have partnered to study traffic management methods for unmanned aircraft systems in support of secure drone operations within the national airspace, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it collaborated with the space agency and other firms to develop new wire...
Kevin Benedict, former vice president of business development at SES Government Solutions, has joined Atlanta-based remote field communications and information technology provider DataPath as senior VP of U.S. government sales. DataPath said Tuesday Benedict will oversee efforts to expand the company’s work with U.S. defens...
Mike Rogers, former representative of Michigan’s eighth congressional district, and Cathy Minehan, managing director of Arlington Advisory Partners, have joined the board of trustees of Mitre Corp. Rogers was a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and chaired the House Intelligence Committee, where he oversaw a...
Randy Cole, former client services vice president within NeoSystems‘ managed accounting services division, has been appointed as senior vice president for consulting services and product sales at the strategic back office services firm. NeoSystems said Monday Cole also joined the company’s executive team. “Randy is a gove...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 14, 2016 ” Neil Green, president of Intel‘s (Nasdaq: INTC) federal business, has stated that high-performance computing has supported new research and government technology programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He wrote in an FCW opinion piece published Tuesday that the development and availability o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 14, 2016 ” The U.S. Navy has awarded Vencore a potential five-year, $135 million contract to provide cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration support for the Space and Naval Warfare Command Systems Center Pacific, GovConExecutive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 14, 2016 ” Carahsoft and Terra Pixel have entered into a partnership to offer the latter’s geospatial data management cloud platform to the intelligence community through the Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) marketplace, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Terra Pixel’s Streamap platform is designed to utilize cl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 14, 2016 ” The National Kidney Foundation will present its honorees for 2016 with their respective awards during the 36th Annual Masquerade Kidney Ball to be held on November 19 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. NKF presents three awards each year to individuals and compa...
