TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2016 ” A joint venture of Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Battelle will provide technology demonstration, validation and transition support to the Defense Department‘s National Defense Center for Energy and Environment under a contract awarded in April, GovCon Executive reported Friday. CTC said Thur...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2016 ” Siemens has received a $38.6 million energy savings performance contract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to implement energy and water conservation measures at two Kentucky correctional facilities, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company’s government technologies business will establish 44 suc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 6, 2016 ” Sandia National Laboratories will continue to manage Energy Department regional test centers for the SunShot Initiative through another three years under a contract renewal awarded to Sandia Corp., ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The RTCs work to evaluate the performance, economic viability and reliabi...
McLean, Virginia-based Altamira Technologies has acquired cybersecurity services provider Prime Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a push to add new footprints in the intelligence community and resources for research-and-development initiatives. Altamira said Friday it also sought access to Prime Solutions’ employees that work in ar...
Jay Nussbaum, chairman of the board at Drone Aviation Holding Corp. since June 2015, will serve in the additional role of CEO at the Jacksonville, Florida-based tethered and unmanned aerial systems manufacturer. The nearly 40-year sales and business management veteran succeeds Kevin Hess, who has moved to his new role as chief technology o...
An L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) division has landed a seven-year, $200 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to offer warfighter readiness and training research. L-3 Link Simulation and Training will research, develop, evaluate and validate training approaches, methods, tools and infrastructure, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Ai...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 28, 2016 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), Honeywell (NYSE: HON), SRI International, QinetiQ, Pratt & Miller, Carnegie Mellon University and Southwest Research Institute for its Ground X-Vehicle Technology program, ExecutiveBiz reported We...
Universities Space Research Association has secured a two-year, $193 million contract from NASA to provide academic and university-based program and project support for Ames Research Center’s science and engineering teams. The nonprofit research company will aid the center’s efforts to meet mission requirements for research and...
The GovCon Index soared 1.396 percent to 77.998 Wednesday on a series of pre-market earnings reports from several large defense prime contractors as Boeing (NYSE: BA) overcame an early morning decline to close in positive. GovCon Wire posted a summary of all six GovCon Index-related earnings figures plus that of United Techn...
Six companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plus another large non-GCI government contractor reported their latest quarterly earnings statements before U.S. financial markets opened Wednesday. Of those seven total, six posted results for the first quarter of their respective fiscal years that run on a calendar basis, with one fo...
