TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2016 ” A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) shipyard in Bath, Maine, hosted the christening ceremony for the U.S. Navy‘s second Zumwalt-class destroyer designated USS Michael Monsoor, Executive Gov reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday USS Michael Monsoor will enter into service to support...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will work with its subsidiary GeoEye Analytics to build data analytics tools for the Defense Intelligence Agency, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The work will be part of a $55 million contract DIA awarded to GeoEye earlier this month, DigitalGlobe said Monday. “This sole-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2016 ” An ASRC Federal subsidiary has received the Defense Security Service‘s 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award for the company’s security program, GovCon Executive reported Friday. ASRC Federal said Thursday the award recognizes Primus Solut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2016 ” Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has urged federal agencies to utilize hybrid cloud and integrate private and public platforms as part of their adoption of the as-a-service business model, ExecutiveBiz reported May 11. Rowan wrote in a guest piece published in the Ma...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has worked with Australia’s defense science and technology group to build a long-range, over-the-horizon radar that works to track small and fast-moving objects, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense News reported Friday the team completed initial validation on the t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) will provide data center migration and managed hosting services for the Georgia Hospital Association™s information technology systems using the company’s data center in Atlanta, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Brandon Hargrett, vice president and chief informatio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Federal CTO Susie Adams has said federal agencies should consider Internet of Things technology in efforts to secure devices within their networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. She told MeriTalk in an interview published June 13 that such an approach to cybersecurity focuses...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” Parsons has received a contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide advisory support on MDA’s military construction activities, facilities and environmental management directorate, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the facility life cycle management support contr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” The Eutelsat 117 West B geostationary satellite, which was equipped with Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) GEO 5 payload built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System, has been sent to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheo...
June 13 – June 17 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson  We shift our focus this week back to GovCon’s merger-and-acquisition environment with one new deal to digest and a second that has brought the purchaser a new landmark contract award. Fairfax...
