McLean, Virginia-based analytics firm PlanetRisk has purchased service-disabled, veteran-owned small business Analytic Strategies for an undisclosed sum in an effort to expand its suite of analytics platforms. Randy Wimmer, founder and CEO of Analytic Strategies, will sit on PlanetRisk™s board of directors and serve as a strategic adviser to Pl...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to purchase $1.15 billion in General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) Abrams battle tanks along with a suite of ground vehicle recovery systems from the U.S. government under a foreign military sales agreement between both countries. Twenty of the total 153 M1A2S Abrams tanks covered ...
NASA has awarded a potential two-year,  $500 million extension to a Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary on a test and operations support contract for support of the space agency’s launch services program at Kennedy Space Center. The agency said Monday Jacobs Technology will continue to perform overall management a...
Intelligent Decisions has sold the company’s U.S. Army communications and transmission systems business assets to Bethesda, Maryland-based government services contractor Tribalco after the Army Contracting Command approved the transaction. Tribalco said Friday the deal includes ID’s position as one of 12 awardees on a potential ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded positions on a $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to four companies to support restoration, modernization and sustainment efforts at various military ground testing facilities. The Defense Department said Monday CB&I Federal Services, Black & Veatch Construction, Turne...
Avwatch, Broadbay Group, Coastal Defense and Consulting Services Group will compete for task orders under a U.S. Special Operations Command contract to provide aviation support services to the Naval Special Warfare Command. The Defense Department said Monday the multiple award, indefinite-delivery/inde...
Kevin Adler, a 16-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined Washington-based content management software vendor Metalogix as strategic account executive for the company’s U.S. state and local government business area. He brings extensive knowledge of Microsoft’s ecosystem and integrated technology offering...
Subsidiaries of Health Net, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Anthem (NYSE: ANTM) have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office to dispute the Defense Health Agency™s Tricare services contract awards, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Health Net and Humana (NYSE: HUM) won separate contracts in July to provide managed car...
The U.S. Army has awarded positions on a potential $18 million contract to seven companies for environmental consulting services to the Army Corps of Engineers‘ South Atlantic Division. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received 21 bids for the multiple-award contract through an online solicitation process and wil...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index hit a new all-time high and had its best day in nearly two months Friday and the U.S. stock bellwether S&P 500 composite index also closed at a record after the latest jobs report far exceeded economists’ expectations for the second straight month. The GovCon Index rose 0.535 p...
