Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has purchased Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider Blue Canopy for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to expand the former™s digital platforms offered under a connected enterprise framework. Jacobs said Thursday it aims to broaden the Jacobs Connected Enterprise framework™s digi...
CGI‘s (NYSE: GIB) federal business has received a potential $133.9 million contract to develop an enterprise-wide software platform for the U.S. Army to write, manage, execute or close out a contract. The Army Contracting Command announced the contract award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. The service branch ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2017 ” Premier (Nasdaq: PINC) seeks to provide health information technology products and services to government agencies via its new position on the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 19. The company said Dec. 18 its inclusion in th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2017 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, participated at the Satellite Industry Association’s 13th annual DoD Commercial SATCOM Workshop as a moderator on a panel discussion about integrated satellite communications, GovCon Executive reported Dec. 1...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEnMi8s74U INDIAN OCEAN (Dec. 20, 2017) Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) fire 25 mm rounds from a Mark 38 Mod II machine gun system during a live-fire exercise on the ship™s weather deck. America, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group, with embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Un...
An Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) subsidiary has won a five-year, $687.1 million contract to deliver commercial fire and emergency vehicles for the Defense Logistics Agency. Oshkosh Airport Products will produce the vehicles at a company facility in Wisconsin for customers such as the four U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies, th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2017 ” Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) federal business, urged the Defense Department to select multiple vendors for its planned procurement of commercial cloud computing services for unclassified, secret and top secret workloads in 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 13. Gordy said ...
Weekly Roundup December 18 – December 22 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This month there was a significant amount of year-end contract activity in the GovCon marketplace. Foreign nations announced their intent to purchase military vehicles and the commencement o...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has agreed to purchase Themis Computer for approximately $180 million in cash in a move to expand its presence in the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence market. Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury said Thursday it expects to complete the transaction in the third quarter of its fisca...
With every technological advance in a positive direction, therein lies the possibility of its use in an equally negative one. Not only that, but the rapid pace of data analysis and its implications on consumers and corporations have surpassed outdated regulatory standards, leaving concerns about the privacy of data and whether anything is being done...
