The U.S. Army has awarded four companies spots on a potential $249.8 million contract for analytic software research and development services related to persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The multiple-award contract will run through May 5, 2021, with funding and work location based on each individual task order, the ...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.634-point increase to 7.206 amid buying activity in U.S. financial markets. The GCI also posted a weekly gain of 0.845 points as earnings reports from contractors over the past week — including Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), Engility Holdings (NYS...
The GovCon Index rode the wave of buying activity in U.S. financial markets Friday and closed up 0.634 points to 7.206, which put the GCI at a weekly gain of 0.845 points to start May after a series of earnings reports from contractors that exceeded analyst expectations. Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: ...
May 2 – May 6 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The first full week of May represented another checkpoint for investors to gauge the financial performance of the U.S.™ largest government contractors and get an idea of what the domestic and global GovCon...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 6, 2016 ” NASA astronauts visited Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) St. Louis facility in Missouri to train on launch, flight and return operations for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft using cloud-based, touchscreen simulators, Executive Gov reported Thursday. The space agency said April 27 two commercial crew astr...
Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) expects to start seeing some organic sales growth in the second half of this year as the company has finished the integration of fellow government services contractor TASC one year out from that acquisition’s closure, CEO Lynn Dugle told investors Thursday. Chantilly, Virginia-based Engility has nearly $...
FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) has appointed Chairman and CEO David DeWalt as executive chairman of the board and President Kevin Mandia as the new CEO in a move to revamp the company™s leadership team. The company said Thursday that Travis Reese, president of the Mandiant subsidiary, has been named president of FireEye, while Chief Financial...
TYSONS CORNER, VA May 3, 2016 — Ross Wilkers, lead journalist for GovCon Wire and online editor for Executive Mosaic media properties, was interviewed for a radio segment scheduled to air Sunday morning on first quarter earnings reports from U.S. defense contractors and Wall Street’s current perceptions of the sector. Was...
The GovCon Index stayed clear of choppy activity in U.S. financial markets with a gain of 0.705 points — or 0.929 percent — to 76.572 on a first quarter earnings beat by shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a sharp spike in McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) shares. Huntington Ingalls rose 4.13 perce...
Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) and ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) — both listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index reported first quarter earnings and revenue figures after U.S. financial markets closed Thursday that either exceeded or met the consensus analyst forecast for both figures. Chantilly, Virginia-based services contractor Eng...
