TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has scheduled the launch of the first batch of Iridium NEXT satellites on September 12 following completion of assembly, integration and testing activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday contractors Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) and Thales Alenia Space...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 17, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has partnered with exactEarth to offer an integrated big data and predictive analytics technology to support the government’s efforts against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The companies will combine DigitalGlobe’s co...
The GovCon Index staged a recovery in afternoon trade after a limp open Thursday but closed at a loss of 0.059 points to 78.791 as Britain’s referendum on whether to exit the European Union continued to dominate global financial market activity. All campaign activities surrounding the “Brexit” vote set for Thursday were suspen...
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...
