TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” The Eutelsat 117 West B geostationary satellite, which was equipped with Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) GEO 5 payload built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System, has been sent to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheo...
June 13 – June 17 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson  We shift our focus this week back to GovCon’s merger-and-acquisition environment with one new deal to digest and a second that has brought the purchaser a new landmark contract award. Fairfax...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” Research and Markets predicts that the unified communications-as-a-service market will post a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent through 2022 due to increased investments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The market research firm said May 26 the rise of business process outsourcing ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received an award from Helios HR for the company’s use of innovative technology to support human resources training, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said June 9 it landed the Helios Apollo Award in the innovative technology category for its ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has received $111 million in contracts to establish a naval training center for the United Arab Emirates’ navy and and provide helicopter simulators to the country’s joint aviation command, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the contract for the tra...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has scheduled the launch of the first batch of Iridium NEXT satellites on September 12 following completion of assembly, integration and testing activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday contractors Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) and Thales Alenia Space...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has partnered with exactEarth to offer an integrated big data and predictive analytics technology to support the government’s efforts against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The companies will combine DigitalGlobe’s co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2016 ” Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s (NYSE: T) global public sector solutions business, believes teaming between industry and federal agencies with limited budgets for information technology will help drive cybersecurity efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Channelnomics reported Wed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2016 ” Biff Lyons, executive vice president and manager of Parsons‘ federal defense and security division, has been named a fellow in the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s Fellows Program along with other company officials, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Parsons said Thursda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2016 ” Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal operations at Vormetric, urges the federal government to focus on encryption and other access control measures as part of a “detailed discovery” approach to cybersecurity, Executive Gov reported Thursday. “This approach, which is best done wit...
