TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” An IDC MarketScape vendor assessment report has recognized Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) security and cloud offerings and ranked the company as a “leader” among systems integrators for the federal government, GovCon Executive reported Friday. IDC stated that Unisys supports fe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled a new pricing tool that works to estimate the cost of using the Azure Government cloud computing platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. A Microsoft blog post published Tuesday said government agency users can use the tool to calculate their monthly bill and dow...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” Mitre has named Van Cleve & Associates and Open Works Engineering as the winners of its competition to test new systems that work to detect and counter small drones that could potentially pose a threat, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The nonprofit organization said Thursday Van Clee...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $108.1 million contract to build 10 MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned autonomous helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday that Northrop will perform work in California, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi as well as other locations within the U.S. through Augus...
Paul Chapman, chief information officer at cloud storage firm Box (NYSE: BOX), has said government agencies should adopt œmicro-services to build digital applications that work to allow citizens and end users to share resources and collaborate on any device. Chapman wrote such micro-services aim to help organizations develop integrated shared s...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday with a 2.30-percent drop to 79.822 to post a two-month low with all 30 registered companies in the negative. U.S. markets also dropped with the S&P 500 at 2, 127.81, the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 18, 085.45 and Nasdaq at 5, 125.91. Investors have express...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 9, 2016 ” Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) will develop a network infrastructure that will work to support the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s new supercomputer for the study of climate change and global warming, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its networ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 9, 2016 ” Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP), will be a speaker at the Cambridge Cyber Summit on Oct. 5 to discuss cyber measures, issues and trends with other private and public sector leaders in the field, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The News Journal re...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has announced plans to merge its non-core software assets with global enterprise software firm Micro Focus under an $8.8 billion deal that is expected to be tax-free to HPE. HPE said Wednesday both companies expect the combination of HPE™s big data, application delivery management, ente...
Science Applications International Corp.’s (NYSE: SAIC) chief executive told investors Thursday he expects consolidation among government services contractors to continue as companies continue to pursue portfolio reshaping initiatives. SAIC itself was a player in the GovCon services consolidation wave through the $790 million acquisition of Sc...
