The GovCon Index was no exception to the effects of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union on global financial markets Friday as the GCI recorded its worst one-day percentage drop of 2016 by 2.805 percent to 77.327. Friday’s plunge brought the GCI from a weekly gain to a five-day loss of 1.175 percent and cuts the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions at AT&T (NYSE: T), has been named a winner of the Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching” awards for 2016 for her work as a female leader, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Profiles in Diversity Journal said Tuesda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Davis Johnson, vice president for the U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said the federal market is learning from industry best practices and catching up with the private sector’s adoption of service provider and cloud strategies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He told ExecutiveB...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said government and industry collaboration in the space systems business segment will facilitate increased resiliency of operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Monday&...
Jeff Jacobson, president of Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) technology business, will transition into the role of CEO after the company announced plans in January to divide into two publicly traded firms. Jacobson will lead the document management and outsourcing company that generated approximately $11 billion in 2015 revenue and will retain t...
Seattle, Washington-based space technology and services provider Spaceflight Industries has bought Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company OpenWhere for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to accelerate the deployment of Spaceflight’s BlackSky satellite imaging platform. Spaceflight said Tuesday it aims ...
Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) CEO Mike Lawrie said Thursday he will step down from his roles as chairman and a member of the board of directors at the government technology services spinoff CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) August 9. Lawrie announced his departure from the CSRA board approximately one month after CSC announced its intent to me...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a $40 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for support on the Defense Department‘s Wide Area Workflow and Electronic Document Access systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday DoD uses the WAWF and ED...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Mitre has been ranked No. 8 in The Washington Post’s “Top Workplaces” list for 2016 based on a survey conducted by WorkplaceDynamics on employee happiness, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday its ranking is under the category for large Washington-based co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has entered into an Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) partner program that provides the former an AWS Government Competency designation for its delivery of cloud platforms to government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Partner companies that demonstrate technical prof...
