TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 7, 2017 ” DigitalGlobe‘s (NYSE: DGI) WorldView-4 satellite has entered service after it completed in-orbit testing and calibration activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday WorldView-4 will work to provide customers direct access to 30-centimeter resolution images, as wel...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 7, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to relocate its Microsoft Technology Center in Michigan to Bedrock‘s One Campus Martius building in downtown Detroit by early 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Redmond, Washington-based technology company will occupy more than 40,000 square feet of space at ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 7, 2017 ” NASA looks to launch an Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) Cygnus spacecraft on March 19 for the company’s seventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The space agency said Friday the spacecraft will be launched aboard a United Launch Allia...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index notched a small advance Monday on help from large aerospace-and-defense primes as U.S. stocks held lower without a major event as a driver of trading activity in equity markets. GovCon Index gainers and decliners split even at 15-each but eight of its 11 S&P 500 components gained with sev...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” Don Maruca, Quantum‘s (NYSE: QTM) federal sales vice president, has said government agencies should explore available options in the commercial industry to update their infrastructure in order to utilize and manage their data. “Industry needs to reinforce to [government] customer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” Parsons will extend its surveillance services in Lebanon to help deter, detect and prohibit weapons of mass destruction at the border with Syria under a task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will provide new equipment ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” Hitachi Data Systems has appointed Tony Whigham, formerly director of federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) Aruba Networks subsidiary, as government sales director for HDS operations in Australia and New Zealand, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Whigham wil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” The Australian air force has exceeded 5,000 hours of utility aircraft simulator training since the 2014 launch of CAE‘s (NYSE: CAE) training facility in Sale, Victoria, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The center was constructed under a contract from Australia’s capability acquisition and sustainm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” The U.S. Air Force has tasked Boeing (NYSE: BA) to extend its sustainment support for the service branch’s on-orbit Global Positioning System II satellites for another five years, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will help sustain the GPS IIA and IIF sate...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index registered a 0.893-percent gain Friday to 89.263 as gainers outnumbered decliners by a 4-to-1 ratio. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) was GCI’s top net performer and Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) the top percentage performer. Friday’s climb comes as U.S. stocks surged with the Labor...
