Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed flat Monday to start the year’s fourth quarter as a rebound by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) in conjunction with advances by other large- and mid-tier primes offset declines by KBR (NYSE: KBR) and McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). GovCon Index gainers slightly edged laggers and eight o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board has awarded a provisional authority-to-operate to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for its government-focused, cloud-based customer relations management software, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Microsoft said Thursday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has installed simulation equipment to support training for manned CST-100 Starliner spacecraft missions at NASA˜s Johnson Space Center in Texas, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company designed its Crew Part Task Trainers to help astronauts rehearse various mis...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has unveiled updates to the Sailfish analytics platform in support of operations such as vehicle safety, vaccine dissemination and anti-human trafficking, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the updated Sailfish will be available in a free trial vers...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has delivered the first GPS Operational Control System satellite receiver to Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) following electromagnetic interference tests, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Space News reported Thursday the satellite receiver is the first of 34 due for the ground sys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and its partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), DataDirect Networks, Mellanox Technologies and Brocade Communication Systems have updated the National Institutes of Health‘s Biowulf supercomputing infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported F...
General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential five-year, $154.7 million contract to provide enterprise communications services to the Defense Intelligence Agency™s directorate for information management and chief information officer. DIA received three proposals for the task order through the ag...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded a 0.232-percent drop Friday to 80.575 and closed September with a 1.13-percent loss. McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) was the top gainer for both GCI stocks and stocks co-listed with the S&P 500. KBR (NYSE: KBR), whose joint venture with Triple Canopy won the $117.8 mill...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index failed to reverse its steep morning decline Friday despite a significant gain by the S&P 500 as a record intraday plunge by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) on a large contract loss weighed on the GCI against a 2-to-1 ratio in favor of green stocks. Six of the GovCon Index’s 11 S&P 500 ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 30, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will release an estimated 9.7 million square miles of 11.8-inch-resolution commercial satellite imagery through its online Basemap +Metro product, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the imagery covers 500 population centers at 11.8-inch reso...
