Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies has landed a potential eight-year, $1.12 billion contract from NASA to provide mission systems operations support at the Johnson Space Center. NASA said Friday the indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract encompasses technical, managerial and administrative services for spaceflight programs. SGT will also prov...
After a review by the General Services Administration, the White House and intelligence agencies, Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky Lab may no longer sell to federal agencies via civilian acquisition contract vehicles. Kaspersky was dropped from the pre-approved vendors list provided by NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurem...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2017 ” In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic partnership with biotechnology company Kailos Genetics in efforts to advance the latter’s sequencing technologies for potential applications in intelligence operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Kailos said Tuesday the In-Q-Tel investment will h...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) closed up for the fourth consecutive day 0.658 percent to 97.609 another 90 day high with advancers outpacing decliners 5 to 1. The major indices all closed up with the DJIA reaching a new high of 21,532.14, the S&P500 was up 0.73 percent, while the NASDAQ Composite gained 1.10 percent driven...
Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer downplayed President Donald Trump’s proposal of a 355-ship fleet, up from the current 276 number, while emphasizing that capability of weapons systems are paramount, Breaking Defense reported. The Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson has assessed that the Navy requires 355 shi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 12, 2017 ” A Vencore unit participated at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance™s 2017 Innovators™ Showcase with a demonstration of its Internet of Things technologies before an audience consisting of U.S. government engineers and scientists, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 12, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has added James Griffith to the 2017 GEOINT Forum panel. The widespread interest and innovative applications of technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things is affecting large ...
Bill Parker, a 25-year government information technology veteran and president of Parker Strategic, has been named chief strategist at Sevatec. Parker will help the leadership team develop and execute the Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s strategic plan, Sevatec said Monday. “His managerial experience and l...
Paul Battaglia, vice president of government sales at BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), has said agencies should integrate mobility as part of the information technology strategy and one way to do it is through adoption of enterprise mobility management platforms. Battaglia wrote that EMM tools with containerized systems work to address issues related to devic...
All market reversed their downward direction from yesterday and closed up strongly today. The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) reached a 30 day high to close at 96.626 up 1.33 percent with twenty eight of the thirty stocks that make up the index closing positive. All the major indices reversed yesterdays downward direction closing up to...
