TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the pending acquisition by parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) would enable MDA to build up support for intelligence and d...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential seven-year, $154.5 million contract from NASA to support flight crew training and development efforts in the space agency’s Neural Buoyancy Laboratory at the Houston-based Sonny Carter Training Facility. The company’s intelligence, information and service unit will help th...
The U.S. and Qatar have signed a potential $12 billion deal to supply Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15QA fighter jets to the Arab country, Defense News reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the Defense Department said Defense Secretary James Mattis and Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatar™s defense affairs minister, signed a letter to facilitate the aircraft sal...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received an $82.8 million contract modification to produce AIM-9X Block II missile systems for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force as well as the governments of Poland, Indonesia, Romania and Belgium. The modification was awarded by the Navy and covers the full-rate production of 180 lot 1...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up for the sixth consecutive day with a mix of service providers and platform companies leading the pack. Officials at the Federal Reserve went ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation. Technology stocks slid to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has partnered with a ViON subsidiary to integrate their technologies to offer big data analytics in an as-a-service model to commercial and government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ViON’s Ascolta business said Thursday it will utilize the Hortonwor...
North Korea has deployed an army of hackers called “Hidden Cobra” against financial, aerospace, critical infrastructure and media assets within the U.S. and around the world over the past eight years, according to a technical alert issued jointly by Homeland Security and the FBI. Cyber tools deployed by North Korea include DDoS botn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2017 ” Melissa Carson, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Unisys (NYSE: UIS) federal systems unit, has received recognition from the Northern Virginia Technology Council as the 2017 CFO of the Year in the division/group category, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. NVTC said it...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will supply the cryptographic applique for the Identification Friend or Foe systems used by the U.S. Air Force and multiple foreign military customers under a $42.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday the company’s sp...
Amy Miller Feehery, formerly principal director of strategic growth and business development at STS International, has been named vice president of sales at Hitachi Data Systems‘ federal business. Hitachi Data Systems said Tuesday the 14-year industry veteran will oversee corporate growth, sales, marketing and strategic planning...
