NASA has awarded a $196.3 million contract extension to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy to continue its science operations support for the Hubble Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The agency said Friday the extension brings the total contract value to $2 billion and requires products a...
Seattle, Washington-based space technology and services provider Spaceflight Industries has bought Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company OpenWhere for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to accelerate the deployment of Spaceflight’s BlackSky satellite imaging platform. Spaceflight said Tuesday it aims ...
Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) CEO Mike Lawrie said Thursday he will step down from his roles as chairman and a member of the board of directors at the government technology services spinoff CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) August 9. Lawrie announced his departure from the CSRA board approximately one month after CSC announced its intent to me...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has entered into an Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) partner program that provides the former an AWS Government Competency designation for its delivery of cloud platforms to government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Partner companies that demonstrate technical prof...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) Chairman and CEO Roger Krone will lead town hall meetings with incoming employees from Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) information systems and global solutions business ahead of the close of a $5 billion deal to acquire the latter, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Forbes reported...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) issued earnings and revenue guidance below analyst expectations Wednesday for the government services contractor’s next fiscal year that starts July 1 on higher indirect costs and selling expenses in conjunction with a forecasted seasonal sales decline in the summer. An additional seven month...
The Labor Department plans to award a $74.2 million task order to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) through the General Services Administration™s IT schedule to support DoL’s transition efforts to a shared service provider for financial management services, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jason Miller writes th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 22, 2016 ” LMI‘s business development vice president for its defense segment has received an appointment to the board of trustees of the National Defense Industrial Association, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. LMI said Monday Mary Margaret Evans will bring expertise in defense programs and acquisi...
Maritime engineering and design company Gibbs & Cox has appointed Chris Deegan, former vice president of the company’s engineering group, to the roles of president and CEO. The Arlington, Virginia-based contractor said Tuesday Deegan will succeed Rick Biben, who will continue to serve on G&C’s board of di...
M1 Support Services has won a $193.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the operations and maintenance of the Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) T-38 Talon trainer aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract requires M1 to provide support on companion training services for B-2 and U-2 pilots and adversary...
