Sarasota, Florida-based industrial and technology conglomerate Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) has wrapped up its acquisition of Deltek for $2.8 billion. Roper completed the transaction three weeks after it agreed to purchase Deltek from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Roper said Wednesday it funded the deal with cash on hand, funds und...
Donald Wetekam, vice president of government and defense business development at AAR‘s aviation services sector, and Jeffrey Wehrenberg, previously chief operating officer at the company’s airlift division, have been appointed to lead AAR Airlift. The company said Thursday Wetekam and Wehrenberg will report to John Ho...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Tuesday to start the final trading week of 2016 as GCI-S&P 500 company Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) led gains in conjunction with positive performances by mid- and lower-tier primes and services contractors. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 2-to-1 ratio and eig...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 23, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University and its Applied Physics Laboratory have joined a group of universities and research centers in support of a Facebook-sponsored academic research agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. SARA aims to advance the development of new technology that will work to allow collaborations betw...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential three-year, $1.45 billion contract to produce and supply Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors for the U.S. Army and allied countries through a foreign military sales agreement. The fixed-price-incentive contract covers the delivery of 205 PAC-3...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has secured a potential seven-year, $26.6 million contract from the U.S. Senate’s sergeant-at-arms office to deploy, sustain, manage and operate a unified communications-as-a-service platform at 450 senate offices across 50 states, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company s...
Our Roundup of 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Calendar year 2016 in the government contracting sector seemed to constantly give us a changing landscape to evaluate and try to forecast the short- and long-term effects of each significant development. Of course, 20...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” Cloudera has partnered with Docker to create an integrated platform that will work to allow government agencies to use cryptographically secured containers for data transfers, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The platform is based on Docker’s Commercially Supported Docker Engines program a...
Facility and logistics services provider Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) will continue to prioritize information technology and network communications as areas of pursuit for potential growth as the company looks ahead to 2017, its newly-appointed CEO has told GovCon Wire. Colorado Springs-based government services contractor Vectrus has $1.5 billion in bi...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a five-year, $927 million contract to provide enterprise technical support for blue badge cardholder services at the Defense Department. The department said Tuesday that Microsoft’s software developers and product teams will provide proprietary resources, source code, consulting and knowledge ...
