TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 24, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has collaborated with the California Polytechnic State University to open a transformation hub that will work to utilize cloud technologies to help the government, nonprofit and education sectors drive digital transformation, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The university ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 23, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured recertification from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for the company’s facilities in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in line with the agency’s workplace safety and health standards, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 12. The company s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 23, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has moved to explore new autonomous technologies for aerial and ground vehicles through its investment in Carnegie Mellon University spinoff Near Earth Autonomy, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The investment by Boeing’s HorizonX ventures arm seeks to advance the development of autonomous...
Weekly Roundup October 16 – October 20 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson™s remarks from Potomac Officers Club Space Summit Air Force taps Orbital ATK for rocket motor tech IDIQ contract Pratt &...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) reversed its three consecutive days of decline to close up 0.150 percent to settle at 108.840. Advancing shares outpaced declining 18 to 12. The three major indices closed mixed for the day with the S&P500 and DJIA climbing to new highs. The S&P500 closed up 0.03 percent to 2,562.10, whi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 19, 2017 ” Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is set to hold its annual symposium on federal information technology on Nov. 9 where the company will host discussions on open source collaboration and its potential benefits for government, GovCon Executive reported Oct. 11. “[Agencies] are looking to open source technologies to hel...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 18, 2017 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has established a facility in Arlington, Virginia, that would facilitate the development and demonstration of new platforms and capabilities designed to support federal digital transformation efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 5. The Customer Experience Center serves to provi...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has agreed to purchase Annapolis Junction, Maryland-based Praxis Engineering Technologies for approximately $235 million in cash in a move to expand its capabilities in mission applications development and broaden its market presence in the intelligence community. Both companies expect to complete the acquisition by the t...
Mark Cherry, president and chief operating officer at Manassas, Virginia-based autonomous systems maker Aurora Flight Sciences, has been appointed to succeed Darryl Davis as vice president of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) Phantom Works technology arm. Davis, who served as head of Phantom Works for a decade, will transition into a program management ...
Aileen Black, executive director, industry lead and group leader for the U.S. government at Google™s cloud business, has said government agencies should consider three factors when migrating to the cloud and one of those is to understand the cloud™s capability to address the gap between the mission or user and big data analytics. œThe...
