Tip Underwood, a business executive with a career spanning 25 years, has been appointed vice president and general manager of homeland and diplomacy at Peraton, the executive announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. Underwood briefly served as VP of homeland security at the Herndon, Virginia-based information technology company before this latest ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index posted three losses out of four trading days during the week, resulting in a 4.08% week-on-week drop. It was the worst weekly loss since its launch in December 2023. The index tracking the stock performances of 30 major government contractors declined 1.71% Friday to close at $5,312.73. Wall Street suffered a...
Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent meeting. Garrettson founded the annual Wash100 Award to commemorate the notable executives transforming the government contracting field. The 100 awardees come from both private and public sectors of the GovCon landsc...
Iron Bow Technologies has secured a potential five-year, $862.8 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs for architecture and application development in support of its connected care technologies. According to a Federal Procurement Data System notice, the contract has a base value of $83.2 million and an estimated completion date of ...
Maxar Technologies was awarded the Commercial GEOINT Access Portal contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for the delivery of web-based commercial imagery and product offerings to users. NGA said the five-year, sole source contract valued at approximately $359 million is a follow-on to the Global-Enhanced GEOINT Delivery award. Ac...
The State Department has cleared the potential foreign military sale of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Croatia. The possible transaction is worth an estimated $390 million and has Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) as the principal contractor, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday It the purchase of the following: Ei...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded gains from Tuesday to Friday, ending the week at a record high of $5,538.65. Besides the 2.39% week-on-week gain, the index tracking the stock performances of 30 major government contractors registered a third straight winning week in August and a 4.74% month-on-month gain. Wall Street’s maj...
The State Department has approved a potential $224 million foreign military sale to the Netherlands of Patriot M903 launching stations and related equipment. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the Netherlands requested to purchase two new production launching stations along with equipment and services needed to upgrade existi...
Although elaborate technological demands are certainly one hurdle to the Department of Defense achieving Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the quieter but no less pressing challenge is government bureaucracy, Breaking Defense reported earlier this month. “It’s a very complex political problem, I think the tech is the ea...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal business, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Deloitte Consulting and two other companies were awarded positions on a potential $500 million contract to help modernize the Food and Drug Administration’s data and analytics. Accenture Federal Services is among the platinum sponsors of the Potomac Officers Club&...
