General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business has received a potential one-year, $44 million contract to perform risk reduction efforts for the U.S. Navy™s MQ-25 unmanned carrier aerial system program. The contractor will develop trade space and refine concepts in support of requirements generation prior to the program™s enginee...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a pair of sole-source contracts to a BAE Systems subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) for support work on the military branch’s Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missile system. BAE Technology Solutions and Services will provide systems engineering and integration services for the Trident FBM under a contract that c...
Andy Dougherty, former deputy director of KEYW‘s (Nasdaq: KEYW) survey and exploration systems sector, has been named president of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-based Continental Mapping Consultants in a move that takes effect Oct. 10. Continental Mapping said Thursday the mapping industry veteran will succeed David Hart...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed flat Monday to start the year’s fourth quarter as a rebound by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) in conjunction with advances by other large- and mid-tier primes offset declines by KBR (NYSE: KBR) and McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). GovCon Index gainers slightly edged laggers and eight o...
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $88 million blanket purchase agreement to Dell Technologies‘ federal government services business segment for information technology delivery and help desk services. Dell said Monday it will support 1, 850 on-site and remote users and also provide first-call resolution ser...
Tammy Torbert, world wide solutions architect of federal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said government agencies should implement next-generation security incident and event management platforms that work to facilitate cyber threat monitoring and analysis amid growth in data stores. Torbert wrote that SIEM is a suite of services desi...
Christopher Zember, former director of the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy, has been named chief technology officer of Alion Science and Technology. He will be  responsible for developing Alion Science’s technology roadmap in his new position, the McLean, Virginia-based govern...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index failed to reverse its steep morning decline Friday despite a significant gain by the S&P 500 as a record intraday plunge by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) on a large contract loss weighed on the GCI against a 2-to-1 ratio in favor of green stocks. Six of the GovCon Index’s 11 S&P 500 ...
September 26 – September 30 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The 2016 federal fiscal year ends today and so has — for now — fears over another government shutdown as President Barack Obama signed a bill late Thursday to extend funding fo...
AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has named Mark Whitney, formerly principal deputy assistant secretary for the Energy Department‘s office of environmental management, as chief operating officer of the company’s nuclear and environment strategic business unit. Whitney is a nuclear energy and environmental industry veteran and member of th...
