Bask Iyer, chief information officer and internet of things manager at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has assumed the additional role of interim CIO of Dell Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Steven Norton writes a spokesman for Dell told the Journal that Iyer took the acting CIO post after Dell Inc. CIO ML Krakauer filed a ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential five-year, $155 million prime contract from the Customs and Border Protection agency to administer and maintain X-ray and imaging systems for CBP. The award covers maintenance of non-intrusive inspection equipment such as the VACIS inspection platforms, radiation portal monitors and radiatio...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed slightly down for a second consecutive session Thursday as notable gains by Textron (NYSE: TXT) after third quarter earnings and CACI International (NYSE: CACI) were offset by declines in Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and other large prime contractors. GovCon Index laggers outnumbere...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said the company’s planned $140 million acquisition of The Radiant Group serves to integrate the latter’s software development and engineering workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. National De...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential one-year, $35.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to implement risk reduction efforts for the future MQ-25 unmanned carrier aviation air system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will work to refine concepts and develop trade space ahead of the engineering and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 19, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has secured contracts worth $76.3 million combined from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy as well as Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary and Rotorsim to provide aircrew training services, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The training services will cover operators and crew on the KC-135, T-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 19, 2016 ” The U.S. public sector business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has been named a “major player” among systems integrators that serve the federal government in an IDC MarketScape vendor assessment study, GovCon Executive reported Monday. HPE said in a blog post pub...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has been awarded a pair of contract modifications with a combined value of $176 million to maintain and repair the U.S. Navy‘s fast attack submarine USS Montpelier. Electric Boat will also perform alterations, testing and routine work on USS Montpelier during the ...
Japan looks to accelerate a $1 billion investment toward its ballistic missile defense systems in response to North Korea’s rocket tests that government personnel believe may lead to the future fielding of a medium-range missile, Reuters reported Monday. Nobuhiro Kubo and Tim Kelly write outlays on a budget request for the year ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 18, 2016 ” Executive Mosaic has named Arnold Morse, CNSI general counsel and chief compliance officer, as one of its top general counsel executive awardees, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 10. “The first step in removing the legal barriers to delivering a service or facility in response to a government need th...
