General Atomics has been awarded a one-year, $310 million contract to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Army‘s MQ-1C Gray Eagle sustainment program. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $74 million in fiscal year 2017 funds at the time ...
Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said that federal agencies should recognize application security as one of the key elements of an enterprise security strategy. Wood wrote that government information technology managers should consider the...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has appointed Susan Jacobs, director of human resources and administration at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding segment, to succeed the retiring Bill Bell as vice president of HR and administration for the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. Huntington I...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held lower Friday as large-cap primes fell to offset a jump by Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) on that company’s in-line third quarter earnings as the GCI ended at its fourth straight weekly loss. GovCon Index laggers outnumbered advancers 2-to-1 in Friday trade and Honeyw...
October 17 – October 21, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Another third quarter earnings reporting season is now underway for many large blue chip companies including some in the government contracting arena but that is merely one of many things looming over ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 21, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $270 million contract from the U.S. Navy to integrate the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System with various aircraft, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday it will work to integrate the JPALS landing guidance technolo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 21, 2016 ” The government solutions business of Capgemini will deliver independent test and evaluation services at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency’s Testing Center of Excellence under a $53 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday it received ...
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...
