The GovCon Index lagged for a third consecutive trading session Thursday to end at a decline of 0.412 points to 74.640 on the week’s final day of trade as U.S. financial markets are closed on Good Friday. Thursday’s close puts the Index at a decline of 1.207 percent on a weekly basis to end the GCI̵...
Mar. 21 – Mar. 24 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson A White House-mandated cybersecurity organization created to combine knowledge and experience from the public and private sectors added a new leader this week whose background includes stops on both side...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2016 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has opened a new cybersecurity training academy that will offer network security certification programs at several locations around the world, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the Fortinet Network Security Academy will provide training through six...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, believes collaboration is key to drive the adoption of a new procurement model for satellite services at the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog entry posted Friday...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2016 ” A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has received a task order under the potential $262 million Transformation Twenty One Total Technology contract to provide claims processing support to the Department of Veterans Affairs, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Systems Made Simple will provide a reposit...
The GovCon Index stumbled from the open to close at a loss of 0.279 points to 75.052 as U.S. stock declines mirrored a fall in commodities such as oil and investors continued to speculate over when the next interest rate increases could occur. Los Angeles-based health insurance provider Health Net (NYSE: HNT) led Index gainers at 3.67 ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 23, 2016 ” Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX) has inked a cooperative research and development agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory to explore the potential of an energy-efficient storage tier for supercomputers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the research effort seeks to develop an a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 23, 2016 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) have unveiled separate cybersecurity initiatives that seek to address shortages in the workforce and information-sharing activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday Fortinet will open a Network Security Academy wh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 23, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded ASRC Federal for its work to support the Orion program with NASA, GovCon Executive reported March 15. ASRC Federal said March 9 it received the 2015 Rigel Award as Lockheed’s top small business partner for that year during which the companies worked to p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 22, 2016 — Stan Ratcliffe, president of NCR‘s (NYSE: NCR) government systems segment,  has said the reuse and repurposing of existing technologies can drive efforts to achieve the “to be” state in terms of having technology that supports self-service transactions, ExecutiveBiz reported M...
