The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $349.1 million contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a $328.6 million contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to perform technology maturation and risk reduction work for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinentinal ballistic missile program. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center in Utah receive...
The State Department has given Romania the go-ahead to buy High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, other military equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $1.25 billion foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is listed as the prime contractor for the transaction that covers HIMARS laun...
Weekly Roundup August 14 – August 18 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week the GovCon industry witnessed a number of significant contract awards, many of which focused on R&D, space, IT services and missile defense. Let’s take a quick lo...
Tysons Corner, VA, August 18, 2017 “ SalesRobot has been retained by ArchIntel„¢ to integrate the ArchIntel Daily Competitive Intelligence Briefing into CRM providers™ platforms, such as Salesforce. The contract calls for SalesRobot to integrate each day™s ArchIntel Briefing into CRM providers™ platform, creating a tab ...
India has approved a deal to buy six additional Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Apache helicopters for approximately $654.6 million, Reuters reported Thursday. India™s defense acquisition council on Thursday cleared the deal that also covers related equipment, spares, weapons, ammunition and training support. The decision came nearly two year...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 17, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has entered into a partnership with DLT Solutions to help increase public sector adoption of open source analytics technologies in efforts to generate insight from data, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 10. DLT said Aug. 9 the collaboration is centered on the DLT AnalyticsStack of...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 16, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and its industry partners Battelle, Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and Riptide have demonstrated several battlespace technologies at a U.S. Navy exercise in collaboration with the Naval Surface Warfare Center – Panama City division, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesd...
Weekly Roundup August 07 – August 11 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson At the tail-end of May the Department of Defense released its FY 2018 budget request, while the Comptroller of the Department of Defense published the Defense Budget Overview, a succi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 8, 2017 ” BAE Systems aims to help the U.K. navy address energy concerns with a future combined heat and power plant at Portsmouth Naval Base that could generate annual energy savings worth approximately $5 million, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the CHP facility will work to recycle energy an...
Jim Chirico, chief operating officer and global sales leader at Avaya, has been named CEO and a board member of the Santa Clara, California-based communications technology firm in a move that takes effect Oct. 1. He will succeed the retiring Kevin Kennedy, who will remain with the company as an adviser, Avaya said Monday. œI’m confid...
