TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 30, 2016 ” Teresa Weipert, senior vice president for government solutions at Sutherland Global Services, has urged the federal government to ramp up collaboration with the private sector on digital services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Weipert wrote in a guest piece published Friday partnership between government ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 30, 2016 ” Fulcrum has received recognition as one of the fastest-growing private companies across the U.S. with its inclusion in Inc. magazine’s Inc. 5000 list for 2016, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Fulcrum said Aug. 23 the average company in the 35th annual Inc. 5000 grew 433 percent over...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index snapped a five-day losing streak Monday on advances by mid- and large-tier defense contractors as gains by financial shares led Wall Street to end its three-day stretch of declines. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers by a roughly 3-to-1 ratio and nine of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” Ensco has received a $4 million contract to provide the Department of Homeland Security an integrated sensor system that works to detect biological and environmental health hazards in buildings, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the technology will consist of an aeroso...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” The General Atomics unmanned aircraft system flight training academy in North Dakota has produced its first batch of graduates who are now qualified to operate the Predator A, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the academy expects to produce an additional ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has worked with Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA to build the SpaceNet online repository of satellite imagery and training data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The repository works to support the development of machine learning and deep learn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has said the Federal Aviation Administration will base its potential decision next year on the deployment of the Iridium NEXT satellite service based on the results of an ongoing cost-benefit analysis, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” Davis Johnson, vice president of Riverbed Technology‘s U.S. public sector business, has said government agencies face a challenge in updating legacy information technology systems to address cybersecurity and operational issues, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Johnson told Nextgov in an interview publis...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.359-point drop to 81.205 and recorded a second straight weekly loss following Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s comments on a potential interest rate hike. Yellen has told central bankers in Wyoming the current low unemployment rate and increased price sta...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index stumbled to negative in late morning trade Friday for a second straight weekly loss as U.S. stocks tried for gains shortly before the close after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told central bankers in Wyoming she believes the case has strengthened for another interest rate hike. Friday’s clos...
