Raytheon has landed a $573 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles production and system items. The award will exercise options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, Defense Department said Wednesday. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Air Dominance Contracting Office w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 18, 2016 ” A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) joint venture has received a performance-based logistics award from the Defense Department for its work in the Javelin program, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. Lockheed said Wednesday its Javelin Joint Venture and the U.S. Army‘s ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 18, 2016 ” QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) will provide VMware‘s FedRAMP-compliant vCloud Government Service to support Y2Fox Data Solutions‘ production environment for public sector customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. QTS said Wednesday it will offer the VMware technology to hel...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has purchased systems integrator Optevia in an effort to address a demand for software-as-a-service customer relationship management offerings within the public sector. Optevia will be part of IBM Global Business Services and support the business unit’s digital consultancy practice and CRM leadership, IBM sa...
Skot Butler, vice president of satellite networks and space services at Intelsat General — a U.S. subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based satellite services provider — has been promoted to president. His promotion is effective April 4 and he will succeed Kay Sears, who is leaving the company after a 10-year care...
Ascolta, a subsidiary of ViON, has appointed Brad Cox as chief data scientist and Clint Green as chief technology officer. Cox will be responsible for the design and execution of detection tools intended for network intrusions in his role at the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics firm, Ascolta said Thursday. Prior to joining Ascolta, Cox worked ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract modification to manufacture two passive microwave instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System, increasing the total contract value to $390.5 million. The $177.7 million modification awarded by NASA on behalf ...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 17, 2016 — Leidos Holdings CEO Roger Krone has been inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his leadership in growth strategy and financial performance. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leade...
The GovCon Index continued on a steady upward trend to close at 74.289, up 0.408%. The Index rode the market up as WTI broke the $40/barrel mark and on positive economic news from the Federal Reserve agreeing to hold interest rate firm, at least for the time being. According to Bloomberg, stocks are finally in the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has included a new C-130H/L-382 full-mission simulator to its C-130 training center in Florida that also features Rockwell Collins™ (NYSE: COL) Flight2 glass cockpit avionics system, ExecutiveBiz reported March 8. Ray Duquette, president and general manager of CAE USA, said in a company r...
