The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential six-year, $423 million contract to produce Aegis missile guidance system components and provide engineering support for the service branch and the governments of Japan and South Korea. The Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $365.8 million from the military branch™s fiscal 2016...
Former Woolpert Chief Operating Officer Scott Cattran has been appointed as the architecture, engineering and geospatial company’s new president and CEO. Cattran started work with Woolpert in 1999 as a phase manager in the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters and has since helped develop the firm’s Western presence and secure&n...
The U.S. Navy has added KEYW Corp. (Nasdaq: KEYW) as an awardee on a potential $245 million contract for engineering and technical support to the information technology division within the Naval Research Laboratory. KEYW will join the eight contractors initially awarded spots on the five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-...
Palantir Technologies has landed a $222 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for the delivery of All Source Information Fusion software licenses and associated support services. The Defense Department said Wednesday Palantir will provide ASIF licenses to support SOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acqui...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 25, 2016 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) will provide enterprise information technology support to the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for missiles and space under a $32.3 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the contract also covers cloud computing, data ce...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2016 ” Bechtel‘s joint venture with Japan Gas Corp. and a subsidiary of Hitachi will plan and build a nuclear power plant in the U.K. under a contract from Horizon Nuclear Power, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Menter Newydd JV will build the two-reactor Wylfa Newydd plant in Wales beginning 202...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2016 ” Amanda Mason, director of strategic programs for the intelligence community at MarkLogic, believes her experience with the U.S. Air Force comes in handy as she works to drive both private and public sector support for cybersecurity learning programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. U.S. News & World...
Anthony Robbins, formerly federal business vice president at Brocade, has joined AT&T (NYSE: T) as vice president of public sector services for the global defense market within the company™s business solutions unit. Robbins will oversee AT&T’s projects for the Defense Department and other defense organizations worldwide, AT&T ...
Huntington Ingalls (NYSE: HII) has received a potential $152 million contract for design, research, development and engineering of the U.S. Navy™s future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise. The company will also use a portion of the contract funds to obtain long lead-time materials that will be used to construc...
The GovCon Index consistently traded lower for the entirety of Monday trade and closed at a decline of 0.509 points to 77.267 with U.S. financial markets choppy in light of a sharp gain by Apple and speculation among investors about potential interest rate hikes this year. Boeing (NYSE: BA) nudged out a gain of 24 cents and CAE...
