Five companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $249 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the military branch’s security assistance training programs in seven countries. The Defense Department said Thursday that American Systems, Integration Innovation, Mag DS, Resicum International and Spec...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZDWoJdC7w DARPA has selected The Boeing Company to complete advanced design work for the Agency™s Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to build and fly the first of an entirely new class of hypersonic aircraft that would bolster national security by providing short-notice, low-cost access to space...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up for the sixth consecutive day with the advancers significantly outpacing the decliners 5 to 1. The GovCon Index reached another 30 day high of 95.791, up 0.787 percent. CSRA lead the 30 GovCon Index stocks, up 4.62 percent as they announced the acquisition NES Associates. All the U.S. indices wer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 25, 2017 ” AECOM (NYSE: ACM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have partnered to develop a scorecard for the United Nations that works to guide local governments in efforts to drive resilience and preparedness against natural disasters, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. IBM said Tuesday the team built the Disaster Resilience Scorec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 25, 2017 ” The upcoming $3.6 billion acquisition of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates is anticipated to boost the latter’s satellite manufacturing business and diversify its satellite services, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Space News reported Tuesday the deal will also work to ...
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget calls for $640 billion in military spending, $52 billion over current year spending and breaking the current budget caps. Nevertheless, the Pentagon claims it has found “efficiency” savings of $1.2 billion in savings for fiscal year 2018, reports Federal News Radio, and that this will res...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2017 ” Parsons has received recognition from the American Planning Association for the company’s West Pond environmental assessment project in New York, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. APA’s federal planning division gave Parsons the Honor Award for Outstanding Environmental Planning...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2017 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will open a new Tennessee-based center of excellence in information technology this summer to offer cloud, cybersecurity and data science services, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the Technology Integration Gateway in Cookevi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 24, 2017 ” Inmarsat has chosen Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) as a value-added reseller of Global Xpress satellite broadband services to government aviation customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Rockwell Collins said Monday it will offer Ka-band connectivity for government aircraft through ...
The Trump administration revealed its budget Tuesday, which would add almost half a trillion dollars to defense spending while cutting $1.5 trillion from nondefense spending and $1.4 trillion in Medicaid over the course of a decade. Trump’s plan, titled œA New Foundation for American Greatness, leaves Medicare and the retir...
