TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 31, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said the company’s Global Xpress commercial satellite network could help address the mobile needs of government users, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Global Xpress is a commercial Ka-band network designed to work with government military sa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 31, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said DigitalGlobe’s acquisition of geospatial information services contractor The Radiant Group serves to support the former’s services business expansion efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported...
David Trulio, former director of operations at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) international sales organization, has been appointed vice president for international government affairs and operations and regional executive for Latin America at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) overseas business. Trulio will work to develop the strategy to grow ...
Paul Dillahay, a 15-year GovCon management veteran and a former executive vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Reston, Virginia-based government technology services contractor NCI (Nasdaq: NCIT) as president and CEO in a move that takes effect immediately. NCI said Monday Dillahay succeeds former president and c...
Idriss Mekrez, chief technology officer for the public sector at MarkLogic, has said government agencies should implement an enterprise-grade NoSQL database to help collect and analyze large volumes of data from various sources as they work to adopt cloud platforms. Mekrez wrote that agencies should consider the deployment of a NoSQL database ...
John Fant and Michael Cameron have joined Noblis NSP, a subsidiary of scientific research and engineering services contractor Noblis, as directors of special intelligence programs and cyber solutions, respectively. Both appointees hold decades of strategic development experience and aim to help grow NSP’s footprint in the d...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index fell at least 1 percent for a second straight time Friday to post its fifth consecutive weekly loss after pharmaceutical services provider McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) issued a guidance cut due to nationwide drug pricing pressure on wholesalers. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers at a 2-to-1 r...
October 24 – October 28, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Outlooks of the government contracting market’s future trajectory and its ongoing dynamics dominated the attention of sector leaders and observers this week, during which GovCon Wire helped ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 28, 2016 ” Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) Linux 7.1 has achieved the Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ for an unmodified commercial operating system as part of the Operating System Protection Profile, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Common Criteria Certification validates the com...
Differing acquisition strategies among government services contractors and defense primes became a main discussion topic analysts raised in earnings calls Thursday morning with three GovCon companies that stated financial results. L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) hinted it could make more acquisitions this year with three...
