Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rebounded Friday on gains by ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) on a second quarter earnings beat, plus boosts by Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB). The GovCon Index posted a gain of 0.292 points to 82.476 and six of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has established a new facility in Augusta, Georgia to provide information technology security services to the Army Cyber Command and other Defense Department components, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The cyber center was built as part of the company’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Siemens has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s VERSANT Zika RNA 1.0 Assay Kit that aims to detect the presence of the Zika virus in plasma, blood and urine samples, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Parsons will participate at the DEF CON 24 event in Las Vegas from Aug. 4 to 7 as a sponsor of the Car Hacking Village activity, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The conference follows Black Hat USA 2016, where Parsons was also a presenter and exhibited its smart city and cybersec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the U.S. Air Force have concluded the first live air-to-air kill test of the company’s F-35 fighter jet against a drone over a military test range near California, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The F-35 Joint Program Office said Monday the F-35 fir...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” American Systems‘ IT Schedule 70 contract with the General Services Administration has received a modification to include the special item number for health information technology services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday SIN 132-56 works to consolidate health IT ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded downward Tuesday on sharp declines in Boeing (NYSE: BA) and major services-oriented contractors while Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) soared 2.71 percent on news of its board of directors membership agreement with activist hedge fund Jana Partners. The GovCon Index declined 0.316 po...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” A Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) business unit has worked with Interpol to investigate and expose a cyber fraud ring that used online scams to steal more than $60 million from businesses around the world, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday FortiGuard Labs provided threa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and Racemi have entered into a partnership to jointly market a suite of bundled services designed to support government customers migration to Amazon Web Services˜ (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing platform or isolated GovCloud region, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. C...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 2, 2016 ” BAE Systems will research, develop and demonstrate a software tool that first responders can use to disconnect a non-cooperative entity from its network and use a separate protected emergency network under an $8.7 million U.S. Air Force contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defen...
