TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) will help the Department of Veterans Affairs operate, update and maintain VA’s budget tracking tool under a potential $16.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The contract includes four one-year options and optional tasks for software enhancement of the tool tha...
Steve Weiss, former executive vice president for government business operations at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), officially joined Accelera Solutions Dec. 1 as president and chief operating officer of the Fairfax, Virginia-based cloud computing and mobile device services provider. He brings to Accelera more than three dec...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed above the 90-point mark for the first time since its October 2014 inception as Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and services contractors led gains to offset declines by Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and other defense primes on a positive day for U.S. stocks. Monday’s stro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has added Informatica to the AWS Public Sector Partner Program to deliver the latter’s data management services to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Informatica said Thursday it will work to establish a hybrid data management pl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, believes the incoming U.S. administration will facilitate continued maturity of satellite service partnerships between the commercial and government sectors, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Space News reported Tues...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International will provide acquisition management support to Air Force Space Command‘s cyberspace superiority division under a $3 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said October it received the award throug...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Howard Steinman, a partner at A.T. Kearney and leader for the Americas region with the company’s public sector practice, has said companies should work to build on awareness and public trust as part of industry’s role in cyber governance. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) U.S. public sector business, has noted that the government utilizes open source technology as the development model for digital transformation efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Digital transformation is an uns...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday up 0.442 percent to 89.812 and ended the week with its fourth straight five-day advance on reports of nonfarm public and private sector payrolls in November above analyst expectations and a likely interest rate increase Dec. 14. GCI gainers outnumbered decliners Friday by a 2-to...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Friday in a mixed session for U.S. stocks as investors looked at November jobs figures above economists’ expectations and furthered anticipation of an interest rate hike Dec. 14. The GCI ends at its fourth straight weekly advance, while the S&P 500 closed flat Friday on financial stock de...
