TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” Hitachi Data Systems has appointed Tony Whigham, formerly director of federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) Aruba Networks subsidiary, as government sales director for HDS operations in Australia and New Zealand, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Whigham wil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” The Australian air force has exceeded 5,000 hours of utility aircraft simulator training since the 2014 launch of CAE‘s (NYSE: CAE) training facility in Sale, Victoria, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The center was constructed under a contract from Australia’s capability acquisition and sustainm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” The U.S. Air Force has tasked Boeing (NYSE: BA) to extend its sustainment support for the service branch’s on-orbit Global Positioning System II satellites for another five years, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will help sustain the GPS IIA and IIF sate...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index registered a 0.893-percent gain Friday to 89.263 as gainers outnumbered decliners by a 4-to-1 ratio. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) was GCI’s top net performer and Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) the top percentage performer. Friday’s climb comes as U.S. stocks surged with the Labor...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rose Friday on advances large and middle-tier defense primes as U.S. stocks climbed following the January jobs report and President Donald Trump’s new executive order to reduce regulations on the banking industry implemented after the 2008 crisis. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 4...
Weekly Roundup January 30 – February 3 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Our fourth annual Wash100 list of Government Contracting™s Most Influential Figures hit the presses last week to recognize leaders in the public and private sectors and those from ma...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 ” Bill Sullivan, vice president and general manager for the North American public sector at Cloudera, has noted that the company continues to build on its public sector business as government agencies are increasingly utilizing their data to support operations and service delivery. “Looking at all of t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 ” John Borghard, senior vice president for public sector sales at CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA), has said the company’s projects with government in 2017 will focus on the areas of cybersecurity, agile and DevOps. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday that CA will work to ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) FortiGate Enterprise Firewall technology has secured authorization from the Defense Department to support government networks as part of the Commercial Solutions for Classified Programs approved components list, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 ” Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has entered into a five-year research and education partnership with Boston University to advance projects, fellowships, internships and other programs on open source technology, cloud, big data, machine learning and automation, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said...
