Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed down sharply after Monday’s rally. The Index hit a new two month low to close at 79.605 off 1.39 percent on the day. Declining shares outpaced advancing 28 to 2. The markets responded to further uncertainty about an increase in U.S. interest rates, and a significant slide in oil prices due...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2016 ” The U.S. Army has awarded General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems subsidiary a $17.3 million contract modification to perform final operational test and evaluation services on the Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company will conduct work for the p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will continue to deliver systems engineering and technical support to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization under a five-year, $53 million recompete contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday its team of professionals will perform analysis, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) will provide engineering services to the U.S. Air Force‘s testing laboratory for B-1 reprogrammable electronic warfare and defensive avionics systems under a $9.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday the contract also ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2016 ” Inmarsat has worked with its Global Xpress partners and government end users to demonstrate a satellite-communications-as-a-service platform using different aeronautical scenarios, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the demonstration works to verify the GX Satcom as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2016 ” An L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) subsidiary will provide logistics services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft under a $49.2 million contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday the award to Vertex Aerospace exercises an opti...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index reversed it’s Friday closing position with a significant advance to 80.727, up 1.13 percent. All thrifty stock in the index advanced. Fed Governor Lael Brainard addressing The Chicago Council on Global Affairs “counsels prudence in the removal of policy accommodation.” Markets move t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” In-Q-Tel and Zoomdata have partnered to address the big data management requirements of the intelligence community using the latter’s visual analytics platform under a new strategic investment and technology agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The agreement works to up...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” An IDC MarketScape vendor assessment report has recognized Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) security and cloud offerings and ranked the company as a “leader” among systems integrators for the federal government, GovCon Executive reported Friday. IDC stated that Unisys supports fe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled a new pricing tool that works to estimate the cost of using the Azure Government cloud computing platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. A Microsoft blog post published Tuesday said government agency users can use the tool to calculate their monthly bill and dow...
