Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed down for the day to 92.798 off -0.123%, contrary to the major markets which all closed slightly up. Investors wait for the February official U.S. jobs data due to release tomorrow. GovCon Index decliners outpaced advancers 19 to 11 as Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA) leds gainers for the second day in a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 9, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has reached a milestone for systems engineering work on the final software iteration of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it followed a DevOps approach that utilizes commercial cloud tec...
NASA has awarded contracts worth approximately $100 million combined to 133 proposals from at least 112 small businesses that aim to perform research and development work on technology platforms designed for use in future deep space missions. The agency said Thursday it selected the proposals under the second phase of the Small Business Innovat...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed down for the day to 92.912 off -0.092%. The major market closed mixed as investors wait to see what the Fed will do with interest rates. The Dow was down 0.33% to close at 20,855.73, the S&P500 off 5.41 points to close at 2,362.98, and the NASDAQ was positive 0.06% to...
Ole Knudson, a retired U.S. Army major general and former deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency, has been named senior director of precision weapons at Orbital ATK‘s (NYSE: OA) armament systems division. Orbital ATK said Monday the more than three-decade Army and MDA veteran will lead the company’s effort...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 6, 2017 – Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell EMC™s federal business, has been selected to this year’s Executive Mosaic Wash100 for Digital and Cloud leadership. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector executives selected by Executive Mosaic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2017 ” Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has formed a venture capital arm that will work to support startup companies as they bring new cybersecurity technologies to the market, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday Symantec Ventures will provide startups access to its go-to-market re...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 3, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will conduct research into automation technologies that utilize artificial intelligence under a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its goal is to build an AI Analyst Vir...
Corey Gomez, a program manager at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been appointed to serve as a senior contract project manager at ACT I to oversee the company’s multiple Defense Department contracts. ACT I said in a press release that Gomez will continue to offer more than 16 years worth of experience in busines...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed at an all-time high Wednesday for the second time in three sessions as U.S. stocks also extended their record-setting rally in their best one-day performance of 2017 so far with the S&P 500 composite index above 2,400 for the first time during intraday trade after President Donald Trump̵...
