Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index tumbled Thursday on large declines among defense prime companies as U.S. stocks traded lower on falling oil prices and mixed earnings reports among blue chips. The GovCon Index declined 0.694 points to 81.499 as none of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed at a ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 — NEC Corp. of America has been included in Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) Certified Cloud and Service Provider program after accomplishing all enterprise cloud deployment certification and testing requirements, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NEC said Monday it will utilize managed, multitenant...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 — CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has received a potential $29 million contract to help develop and manage a disaster recovery program for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency‘s mission-critical systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday it will also assist in the progr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 ” General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has secured an $18.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the development of a payload module for the Virginia-class attack submarines, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the award covers two Virginia payload module pre-production uni...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 ” Deloitte has partnered with Cray to offer a cyber analytics service for government agencies that works to generate threat intelligence for the discovery, analysis and response to cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The subscription-based Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics service utilizes...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 ” DynCorp International has received certification from auditing firm MSS Global that the private security company’s management systems are compliant with ethics and other international standards, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the PSC.1 certification bas...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed at an all-time high for the sixth time in eight sessions Wednesday on a mix of strong performances from middle-tier platform and product makers plus predominantly services-oriented contractors. The GovCon Index gained 0.328 points to 82.193 with nine of the GCI’s 11 S&a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2016 — The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI International (NYSE: CACI) a three-year, $60.7 million task order to update the Navy’s information technology systems for afloat and ashore supply chain and logistics management, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. CACI said Thursday it will deliver li...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2016 — Thales Alenia Space and Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) have completed construction on 81 communications satellites for Iridium Communications‘ (Nasdaq: IRDM) Iridium NEXT mobile communications network, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Spaceflight Now reported July 13 that the satell...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM), Bombas and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation will support the Department of Veterans Affairs in the delivery of healthcare to military veterans, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. VA said Monday it has teamed with the three organizations under the MyVA Strategic Partnership I...
