TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 31, 2016 ” Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of government programs at Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has joined other executives to discuss new positioning, tracking and navigation technologies with Investorideas.com, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Investorideas.com said Thursday ABI Research...
Fifteen companies and four universities have shown interest in pursuing a potential 10-year, $2.9 billion contract for management services at the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s Sandia National Laboratories, the Albuquerque Journal reported May 18. Michael Coleman writes that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary San...
The U.K.’s ministry of defense could award a $2.9 billion contract for the purchase of 50 Apache helicopters to Boeing (NYSE: BA), The Telegraph reported Saturday. Alan Tovey writes MoD could issue the procurement and servicing contract to the U.S. company at the Royal International Air Tattoo military air show in July...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 31, 2016 ” Vencore will provide mission support to the U.S. Cyber Command as part of the first task order under a $460 million contract awarded through the General Services Administration, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the task order is worth $89 million and will c...
May 23 – May 27 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Just when we thought GovCon was on a merger-and-acquisition hiatus, two deals have garnered our attention this week with one that has definitive effects in the public sector and a second that might. Our...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP), has said the company continues to focus on efforts to build on its software portfolio for national security and classified government programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He told IT Business Edge in an interview publi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer for IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) global business services, believes one-third of the U.S. government’s $3 trillion healthcare budget has been underutilized, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. Salzman wrote in an IBM Center for the Business of Government blog ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide a public cloud platform to support Salesforce‘s (NYSE: CRM) services as the latter seeks to expand its international infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. AWS said Wednesday Salesforce plans to migrate core services such as Sales Clo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Vencore has been certified by Virginia’s veterans services department under the Virginia Values Veterans program for the company’s commitment to build up veteran hiring and retention efforts, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it plans to add 1, 800 veterans and ...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has agreed to purchase Itseez, a developer of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms. Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things group at Intel, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Itseez will join Intel™s IoT group to develop deep-learning-bas...
