TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, and Rick Lober, a VP and general manager at Hughes Network Systems, were among the executive speakers at the Satellite Industry Association™s Defense Department Commercial SATCOM Workshop, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Cowen-...
Fulcrum has won a potential five-year, $168.2 million task order to provide strategic planning, research, analysis and training services for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization‘s global situational awareness and communities of action missions. Four offers were submitted to the General Services Administration for t...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a $71.1 million contract modification to help the U.S. Army integrate,  sustain and operate the military branch’s Saturn Arch neutralizer platform for improvised explosive devices. The Army obligated $45.6 million in fiscal 2016 “other” procurement and operations and maintenance funds at...
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has received a potential five-year, $129.9 million contract from NASA to design and develop a satellite that works to provide images and measurements of the Earth’s land cover. NASA awarded the firm-fixed-price delivery order for the Landsat 9 spacecraft under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III contract, the ...
Data Systems Analysts, Inc. (DSA) has announced that they have been awarded the National Gateway Center (NGC) Task Order (HC1028-08-D-2006-0020) by the Defense Information Systems Agency. The task order was assigned to DSA under the DISA ENCORE II IDIQ contract. “We are excited and proud to have this opportunity to continue our long-standing s...
NASA has awarded a potential two-year,  $500 million extension to a Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary on a test and operations support contract for support of the space agency’s launch services program at Kennedy Space Center. The agency said Monday Jacobs Technology will continue to perform overall management a...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a $524 million contract option to produce, test and deliver up to 52 Standard Missile-3 Block IB weapon systems to MDA. It represents the first of three option years under a potential $2.3 billion contract modification announced on Dec. 18 last year, the Defense Department sa...
Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) could make small “niche” acquisitions with support from the board of directors as the government services contractor looks to expand its current work and market footprints this year,  chief executive Lynn Dugle told investors Monday. “My full attention is on organic growth getting the team ...
July 11 – July 15 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson   One of the world’s two largest airplane manufacturers is mulling acquisitions in the defense services arena that would continue a trend among prime contractors toward capability-based dea...
Mike Dignam, former president and CEO at Virginia-based government logistics service contractor PAE, has been appointed to the same roles at CRDF Global in a move that takes effect Aug. 1. He will succeed Cathy Campbell, who has led the nonprofit over the past 10 years as CEO and will step down after a 14-year career there, ...
