The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 80 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $25 billion contract vehicle the agency intends to use as its primary mechanism for acquisitions of information technology services via task orders. CMS released the list of awardees in a Wednesday FedBizOpps n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2016 ” Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s (NYSE: T) global public sector solutions business, believes teaming between industry and federal agencies with limited budgets for information technology will help drive cybersecurity efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Channelnomics reported Wed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2016 ” Biff Lyons, executive vice president and manager of Parsons‘ federal defense and security division, has been named a fellow in the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s Fellows Program along with other company officials, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Parsons said Thursda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2016 ” Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal operations at Vormetric, urges the federal government to focus on encryption and other access control measures as part of a “detailed discovery” approach to cybersecurity, Executive Gov reported Thursday. “This approach, which is best done wit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2016 ” Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, believes early exposure to the potential of cybersecurity and technology careers will help build on the future cyber workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Wajsgras wrote in a guest piece published Wed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2016 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) will offer GENBAND‘s Experius application server to government customers via its position in the General Services Administration‘s Networx contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Experius works to support multimedia communications and integrate voice...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will launch the Certus satellite communications service to the government and commercial markets in the second quarter of 2017, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Iridium NEXT-powered offering will work to provide broadband services with connection speeds of up t...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a decline of 0.551 points to 79.942 but ended with its fourth consecutive weekly gain with a 1.20-percent increase. Upgrades to prime defense contractor stocks including L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) and strong performances from Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Nort...
The GovCon Index stumbled from the open Friday and closed down 0.551 points to 79.942 as investors continued to pull back from the GCI’s six-day prior rally and U.S. stock benchmark S&P 500’s three-day stretch of gains that ended Thursday. Despite Friday’s decline, the GCI ends the week up 1.20 percent to record its f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 9, 2016 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space systems business, was featured in the Atlantic Council’s Captains of Industry Series event Wednesday, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The council said Ambrose’s portion in the discussion focuses on Lockheed...
