TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” SOS International has received a multiyear contract from the U.S. Army to develop a training program for security assistance officers who will be assigned to support the Ministry of Interior-Military Assistance Group in Saudi Arabia, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the training program w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” Texas Workforce Commission has named Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as a regional Employer of the Year for 2016, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Dec. 14 it received the award for its efforts to hire and retain persons with disabilities and its project with...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm will help engineer and install new submarine weapon systems under a potential five-year, $368 million U.S. Navy contract awarded in October, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The contract will also involve information technology support, engineering services and test equipmen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” A new Riverbed Technology survey has revealed that a majority of federal employees believe latency issues due to bandwidth-intensive applications negatively affect agency productivity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. One in three federal employee respondents have stated that agencies take more than 24 hours to...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rose Tuesday with help from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and other large aerospace prime contractors as U.S. stocks also traded higher with financials the top gainers and the Dow Jones Industrial Average in touching distance of 20, 000. GovCon Index gainers edged decliners by a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been tasked by the U.S. Air Force to produce a new modular mission computer system for the military service’s F-16 aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The computer update is designed with multicore processing, cybersecurity and high-speed computing and data networking fe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has completed the first flight test for an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early-warning aircraft equipped with an aerial refueling system, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Thursday the aerial refueling function will work to boost the on-station time and range of the E-2D ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certifications for nine Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) operating system cryptographic modules, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The FIPS certifications validate the compliance of the native cryptographic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide a high-speed virtual private network to help NASA update the transmission capacity of the Deep Space Network telecommunications system, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The VPN will work to connect the network’s radio antennas around the world, support bandwi...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher on contributions from large defense prime contractors as U.S stocks pared back some gains from earlier in the session after the terror attack in a Berlin Christmas market and the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 3-to-1 r...
