L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has wrapped up its purchase of Australia-based radiofrequency and electronic warfare platforms provider Micreo for an undisclosed sum. The newly acquired company will operate as L-3 Micreo that is forecast to generate $27 million in annual sales for the year ending Dec. 31, 2017 and will report to L-3 TRL Tec...
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Emergent BioSolutions a five-year, $198.7 million contract to further mature the development of an anthrax vaccine in preparation for a Food and Drug Administration license. The HHS office of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response™s Biomedical Advanced Research and Developme...
Tammy Torbert, world wide solutions architect of federal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said government agencies should implement next-generation security incident and event management platforms that work to facilitate cyber threat monitoring and analysis amid growth in data stores. Torbert wrote that SIEM is a suite of services desi...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index failed to reverse its steep morning decline Friday despite a significant gain by the S&P 500 as a record intraday plunge by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) on a large contract loss weighed on the GCI against a 2-to-1 ratio in favor of green stocks. Six of the GovCon Index’s 11 S&P 500 ...
September 26 – September 30 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The 2016 federal fiscal year ends today and so has — for now — fears over another government shutdown as President Barack Obama signed a bill late Thursday to extend funding fo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 30, 2016 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has selected Govplace as a subcontractor on a program to provide cybersecurity and cloud services under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation and Continuous Monitoring as a Service initiatives, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Govplace said Thursday&...
A joint venture of KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Triple Canopy has won a one-year, $117.8 million contract that includes separately-funded option periods to operate a U.S. Army base in Kuwait and provide security support services for the military branch’s area support group in the country. KBR-Triple Canopy LLC w...
QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has appointed Steve Bloom, formerly senior vice president and chief human resource officer for ProBuild, as the new QTS chief people officer. Bloom has provided organizational management, strategy development and talent management in industries such as technology, healthcare, consumer products and financial ser...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has been awarded a potential $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to repair nuclear-powered submarines, moored training ships, special mission submersibles and submarine support facilities for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract has an ordering ...
Business Integra has received a potential five-year, $206 million contract to manage and integrate information technology systems at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The company will help NASA implement strategies to manage networking, computing and multiple facilities as w...
