TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 11, 2016 ” Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal civilian business group, has observed various government agencies exploring the potential of internet of things to modernize aging infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. She wrote in an opinion piece published Friday ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 11, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) and its partners target the period between late October and early November to launch the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) WorldView-4 satellite, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The team comprised of DigitalGlobe, United Launch Alliance and the U.S. Air Force have po...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 11, 2016 ” The U.S. Navy has commissioned the Huntington Ingalls Industries-built USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock ship Saturday in Pennsylvania with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as the keynote speaker, Executive Gov reported Monday. The Tribune-Democrat reported Saturday t...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index returned above the 80-point barrier Monday on strong gains by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and services-oriented companies as energy shares led U.S. stocks higher in conjunction with a rise in crude oil prices. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers at a 6-to-1 ratio but five of its 11 S&P 500 componen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” IAP Worldwide Services has worked to provide assistance and emergency power support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s regions IV and V in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it has sent various teams to FEMA Initial Su...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will update the sensors on the U.S. Army‘s AH-64E Apache helicopters under a $49 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Oct. 3 it will provide 42 Modernized Day Sensor Assembly kits and spares to support updates on the Modernized T...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” The Australian business of IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured an estimated $2.4 million contract to supply the country’s taxation agency a cloud platform built on Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ZDNet reported Friday the agency has also previously ...
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...
