TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) has formed a team within its security services business that will work to test and identify vulnerabilities in customer computer systems under the leadership of Charles Henderson, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday X-Force Red will consist of ethical hackers...
Bravura Information Technology Systems has won a potential four-year, $305.7 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s tethered aerostat-based system for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Army Contracting Command received four bids for the Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered s...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $127.3 million contract modification to continue to perform risk reduction efforts for the U.S. Air Force™s Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program. The Air Force said Friday it issued the contract modification in order to determine how to procure, build, test and modify Boeing™s 7...
July 11 – July 15 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson   One of the world’s two largest airplane manufacturers is mulling acquisitions in the defense services arena that would continue a trend among prime contractors toward capability-based dea...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 8, 2016 ” Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has received designation from the National Security Agency as an authorized integrator of commercial services in classified environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. HPE said in a blog post published June 27 the company has been included i...
The Labor Department plans to award a $74.2 million task order to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) through the General Services Administration™s IT schedule to support DoL’s transition efforts to a shared service provider for financial management services, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jason Miller writes th...
The General Services Administration has issued a request for proposals in search of a contractor to redevelop the federally-owned John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GSA said Wednesday it seeks a private developer that will be interested in designing and constructing a research facili...
The GovCon Index was dragged Monday by the across-the-board selloff in U.S. stocks and closed at a steep decline of 1.288 percent to 78.912. McLean, Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) was the GCI’s lone gainer at 2.16 percent after the contractor reported first-quarter earnings and revenue above anal...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Vencore has been certified by Virginia’s veterans services department under the Virginia Values Veterans program for the company’s commitment to build up veteran hiring and retention efforts, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it plans to add 1, 800 veterans and ...
Huntington Ingalls (NYSE: HII) has received a potential $152 million contract for design, research, development and engineering of the U.S. Navy™s future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise. The company will also use a portion of the contract funds to obtain long lead-time materials that will be used to construc...
