Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $599.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to conduct preliminary design activities to convert a pair of 747-8 aircraft into presidential planes. The modification covers the initial design of the future Air Force One fleet that includes the integration of a mission comm...
Manik Rath, formerly a senior vice president at LMI, has been named chief operating officer at Vienna, Virginia-based human capital and information technology services provider C2 Technologies. Rath has more than two decades™ experience in human capital, IT and management consulting in the public sector in support of intelligence and defense ag...
The State Department has approved Canada™s request to buy Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft and related equipment and services from the U.S. government under a potential $5.23 billion foreign military sales agreement. Boeing, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) will ser...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has secured a potential 10-year, $2.4 billion follow-on contract from the National Security Agency for enterprise information technology services, Nextgov reported Tuesday. The company said in a Sept. 5 filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission it won the recompete contract from a Defense Department agency through its Ea...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2017 ” A Unisys (NYSE: UIS) survey has unveiled that more than half of federal information technology executives believe that an increase in security challenges at their agencies could be attributed to their IT modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Market Connecti...
Brent Hansen, senior director of solution architects at Thales e-Security, has said federal agencies seeking to build up their cybersecurity posture should prioritize the adoption of technology platforms that work to encrypt data at rest. Hansen wrote that encrypting data at rest could help agencies safeguard critical information from cyber breaches...
SOS International has acquired Vienna, Virginia-based data analytics and cyber platforms provider Defense Group Inc. for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand its client base and broaden technical capabilities in the field of cyber intelligence. The transaction marks SOSi™s second purchase in the intelligence sector after it bought defens...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 11, 2017 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has unveiled that its cybersecurity test, evaluation and training platform has reached full operational capability to support both government and military customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its Advanced Cyber Range Environment&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) has entered into a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to establish a $240 million laboratory that will facilitate joint research and development efforts in artificial intelligence, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday it will work with MIT to op...
Weekly Roundup September 4 – September 8 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson As the summer comes to a close, let’s take a quick look at the public-to-private sector executive moves over the past few months. A number of high ranking public sector offici...
