Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported earnings of $8.36 per share for the full 2015 calendar year to fall below Wall Street analysts forecasts of $8.99. Full 2015 net income rose 19.52 percent year-over-year to $404 million from 2014 with fourth quar...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported an increase of 8.1 percent in profit for its full 2015 calendar year and earnings figures for 12 months and the fourth quarter that meet Wall Street’s expectations. The Fairfax, Virginia-based technology and gov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will provide the Iridium Extreme 9575 satellite handset for U.S. and foreign government use, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Iridium said Tuesday General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has selected the company in an effort to provide government agencies and service members a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” In-Q-Tel will help Cylance upgrade its CylancePROTECT system, which works to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to prevent cyberattacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Our partnership with Cylance is intended to further enhance how artificial intelligence and related technologies preve...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said “satcom as a service” can help the military drive value from satellite communications technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will decide in the coming weeks if it will pursue a company investment to self-fund the continued production of F/A-18 fighter aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Reuters reported Friday that Dan Gillian, head of Boeing’s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G programs, has i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to offer Microsoft Software & Systems Academy courses at five U.S. Army bases to help active-duty and former soldiers transition to civilian careers in IT, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Chris Cortez, vice president of military affairs at Microsoft, wrote i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will offer security services for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, based on geospatial data and satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the offering includes the Basemap+Daily imagery subscription service...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) will update and integrate the U.S. Air Force‘s KC-135 aircrew training platforms to the service branch™s Distributed Training Center Network, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contract covers updates to the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Saudi Arabia’s proposed $154.9 million purchase of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) upgraded MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems has received approval from the U.S. government, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the potential foreign mili...
