TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 9, 2017 ” A CSRA-led (NYSE: CSRA) industry team has installed the second increment of an update to the National Institutes of Health‘s Biowulf supercomputing system in order to increase the agency’s computing capacity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Aug. 2 the effort continues...
Criterion Systems has secured an $85 million task order under the General Services Administration‘s Alliant Small Business contract vehicle to provide information technology support staff to the Agriculture Department‘s National Information Technology Center. The company said Tuesday it will supply 75 full-time person...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) reversed direction to close down 0.261 percent to 100.760 . Decliners outpaced advancers 19 to 11. The major indices closed down for the day with the S&P500 off 0.24 percent, while DJIA moved slightly downward by 0.15 percent and the NASDAQ Composite was off 0.21 percent. Crude oil closed down on...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 8, 2017 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will pursue work to provide telecommunications services and technologies to government agencies through its position under the General Services Administration‘s $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Aug....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 8, 2017 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has added former U.S. Air Force secretary Deborah Lee James to the company’s board of directors, where she brings more than 30 years of experience in the areas of homeland and national security, GovCon Executive reported Monday. “I look forward to helping make the company’s...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has wrapped up its acquisition of Alexandria, Virginia-based federal government cloud services provider Phase One Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum. Both companies first announced the deal in June and Accenture said Tuesday it made the acquisition to expand its Salesforce (NYSE: CRM...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) continued to climb and remained above the 100 mark to close at 100.850 up 0.243 percent. Shares of Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) topped the board on reports that United Technologies Corp. was considering a deal to buy the aircraft equipment maker. The major indices started the week off with the S&...
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) is exploring an acquisition of Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics contractor Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) as the global industrial conglomerate looks to further expand its aerospace business, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg it is yet unclear whether the two fi...
Markets responded positively to better than expected July employment reports. The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) remained above the 100 mark to close at 100.443 up 0.122 percent. Advancers outpaced decliners 18 to 12. The major indices closed up on the day. The S&P500 gained 0.19 percent, while the DJIA set another new high a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2017 ” Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC™s federal business, has said agencies can utilize cloud computing technology to manage the volumes of data generated from the Internet of Things, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “Cloud provides federal agencies with the improved flexi...
