TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will likely hold the prime role in a teaming agreement with CAE (NYSE: CAE) and Alenia Aermacchi to pursue the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X pilot trainer contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense News reported Tuesday Raytheon will replace General Dynamics (NYSE...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said the company uses deep-learning and crowdsourcing tools to analyze satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GCN reported Wednesday that Frazier has pointed to MrGeo, NVIDIA graphics process...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will help update the Defense Department‘s network gateway under an $8.57 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the award works to provide distributed tactical commu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal Software, has said modern “cloud-native” applications work to help transform federal IT amid the current budget environment. Salisbury wrote in a guest piece posted Wednesday on ExecutiveBiz that while government has mirrored the...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a gain of 0.066 percent to 71.436. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 saw slight declines following another oil price drop, while the Nasdaq Composite received a boost from Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) and technology stocks to end the day in the positive. Top GovCo...
The GovCon Index showed a modest gain today closing at 71.436, up 0.066%, as both the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P500 closed slightly down from effects of sliding oil prices. The NASDAQ Composite ending the day in the positive receiving a boost from Applied Materials (AMAT.O) up 7.9% and rebound in technology stocks. As markets...
Feb. 16 – Feb. 19 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Over the past two weeks here, we have taken different looks at Executive Mosaic’s 2016 Wash100 list of the government contracting arena’s most influential voices and pulled out some simi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 19, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will launch a global cyber education program in effort to address the increased global demand for information technology talent, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will unveil the program at the UAE Security Forum in Abu Dhabi and hold a four-day cyber wo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 19, 2016 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) will help government agencies migrate their data workloads to an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud platform as part of its offering under the General Services Administration‘s Networx contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 19, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has completed the operational assessment of the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the assessment includes flight tests for the UAS weapon system and moves the program closer to Milestone ...
