August 1 – August 5 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Government contracting™s M&A and financial aspects took center stage again this week and GovCon Wire hit on all the major events as Executive Mosaic™s home of market-moving news for ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 5, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) anticipates $15 billion in potential exports of the F-16 fighter jet with the proposed transfer of that aircraft’s production to India, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Economic Times reported Thursday that an F-16 production line in India could lead to export sale...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held lower Thursday against narrow movement by U.S. stocks as investors looked ahead to the July jobs report for release Friday before the opening bell. The GovCon Index declined 0.176 points to 82.300 and three of its 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed in positive with Boeing (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Siemens has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s VERSANT Zika RNA 1.0 Assay Kit that aims to detect the presence of the Zika virus in plasma, blood and urine samples, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Parsons will participate at the DEF CON 24 event in Las Vegas from Aug. 4 to 7 as a sponsor of the Car Hacking Village activity, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The conference follows Black Hat USA 2016, where Parsons was also a presenter and exhibited its smart city and cybersec...
ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) reported second quarter earnings and revenue above the consensus analyst estimate Tuesday on year-over-year growth in U.S. federal government sales as the company also lifted guidance on full-year results for that market. Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting and technical services provider ICF said earnings for th...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded downward Tuesday on sharp declines in Boeing (NYSE: BA) and major services-oriented contractors while Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) soared 2.71 percent on news of its board of directors membership agreement with activist hedge fund Jana Partners. The GovCon Index declined 0.316 po...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” A Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) business unit has worked with Interpol to investigate and expose a cyber fraud ring that used online scams to steal more than $60 million from businesses around the world, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday FortiGuard Labs provided threa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and Racemi have entered into a partnership to jointly market a suite of bundled services designed to support government customers migration to Amazon Web Services˜ (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing platform or isolated GovCloud region, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. C...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” BAE Systems will research, develop and demonstrate a software tool that first responders can use to disconnect a non-cooperative entity from its network and use a separate protected emergency network under an $8.7 million U.S. Air Force contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defen...
