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 Not only that, but the rapid pace of data analysis and its implications on consumers and corporations have surpassed outdated regulatory standards, leaving concerns about the privacy of data and whether anything is being done...
ViaSat (Nasdaq: VSAT) has received a potential $350 million contract to deliver mission networking sustainment services to the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s procurement division. The Carlsbad, California-based communications firm will primarily carry out work at a ViaSat and USSOCOM facilities through December 2022, the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2017 ” LMI will collaborate with the Defense Department on a program that aims to provide financial support to science, technology, engineering and math students in exchange for civil service with DoD, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it entered into a cooperative agreement with DoD...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has secured a position under a potential five-year, $500 million blanket purchase agreement to support a shared services program at the Agriculture Department. Accenture Federal Services is one of nine contractors eligible to compete for task orders to help USDA™s Office of the Chief ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $961 million contract to perform upgrades and provide sustainment services for the U.S. Air Force™s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers 683 Sniper pods, spares, sensor and software updates, logistics support and other serv...
