TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has installed simulation equipment to support training for manned CST-100 Starliner spacecraft missions at NASA˜s Johnson Space Center in Texas, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company designed its Crew Part Task Trainers to help astronauts rehearse various mis...
Six professional services firms have been awarded separate contracts worth up to $100 million combined for audit support services to NASA. Each indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains one base year plus up to four option years and covers work the Defense Contract Audit Agency has previously performed for NASA, t...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded CareFusion (NYSE: CFN) a five-year, $100 million blanket purchase agreement contract to build a technology platform for military health facilities to automate distribution of distribution of medicines to beneficiaries. CareFusion will develop the Pharmacy Impatient Automation Solution-Automated Dispens...
Christopher Zember, former director of the National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy, has been named chief technology officer of Alion Science and Technology. He will be  responsible for developing Alion Science’s technology roadmap in his new position, the McLean, Virginia-based govern...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index failed to reverse its steep morning decline Friday despite a significant gain by the S&P 500 as a record intraday plunge by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) on a large contract loss weighed on the GCI against a 2-to-1 ratio in favor of green stocks. Six of the GovCon Index’s 11 S&P 500 ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 30, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will release an estimated 9.7 million square miles of 11.8-inch-resolution commercial satellite imagery through its online Basemap +Metro product, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the imagery covers 500 population centers at 11.8-inch reso...
September 26 – September 30 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The 2016 federal fiscal year ends today and so has — for now — fears over another government shutdown as President Barack Obama signed a bill late Thursday to extend funding fo...
QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has appointed Steve Bloom, formerly senior vice president and chief human resource officer for ProBuild, as the new QTS chief people officer. Bloom has provided organizational management, strategy development and talent management in industries such as technology, healthcare, consumer products and financial ser...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has been awarded a potential $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to repair nuclear-powered submarines, moored training ships, special mission submersibles and submarine support facilities for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract has an ordering ...
Business Integra has received a potential five-year, $206 million contract to manage and integrate information technology systems at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The company will help NASA implement strategies to manage networking, computing and multiple facilities as w...
