TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) will conduct clinical trials to test the efficacy of experimental Chikungunya virus vaccines under a five-year, $10 million task order from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the new work comes under the potent...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” General Atomics has unveiled the Nirvana 5.0 software platform that works to process big data workloads in support of scientific research, energy exploration and media, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the software operates with the PostgresSQL open source databa...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index registered a sharp 1.298-percent decline Friday to close at 79.859, going below 80 points for the first time since Sept. 21. Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) and Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) are the GCI’s only S&P 500-listed stocks to close green Friday. The Index als...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index registered its second loss of at least 1 percent in six sessions Friday to register its second consecutive weekly decline on Honeywell International‘s (NYSE: HON) largest one-day plunge in 15 months on an earnings guidance miss and other falls by mid-tier contractors. Friday’s sharp de...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 7, 2016 ” Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has urged federal information technology leaders to adopt a “zero trust” cybersecurity model, measures to address network performance limitations and network perimeter security, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. ̶...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 7, 2016 ” DynCorp International will provide base operations support to the U.S. Air Force in Oman under a new task order awarded through the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program IV vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the task order covers maintenance and repairs support ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 7, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has unveiled a new 23, 000-square-foot Global Innovation Center in Florida that features interactive technology demonstration stations and workspaces that aim to drive collaboration between customers, employees and partners, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 7, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will support the evaluation of grant applications submitted to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas under a $34 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The contract, won through a recompete, covers the provision of a software-as-a-servic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 8, 2016 ” Vencore and Havas Health have established a joint venture that will work to provide data analytics and predictive modeling services to support biopharmaceutical companies’ expansion into the rare-disease market, ExecutiveBiz said Thursday. HVH Patient Precision Analytics will help clients to identify, dia...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held higher against narrow trading activity in U.S. financial markets Thursday on strong performances by CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and defense platform makers as Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) rallied to recoup one-half of losses from a steep fall Wednesday. ThursdayR...
