TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 29, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has provided the private cloud infrastructure that hosts an online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to purchase software applications and developer tools, Executive Gov reported Thursday. Nextgov reported Wednesday that the IC Marketplace hosted on A...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 29, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said military and commercial integration of satellite systems works to support unhindered warfighter access to services, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog entry posted Monday tha...
An L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) division has landed a seven-year, $200 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to offer warfighter readiness and training research. L-3 Link Simulation and Training will research, develop, evaluate and validate training approaches, methods, tools and infrastructure, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Ai...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 28, 2016 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of the space systems business at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), believes the integration of defense and commercial systems works to support the future space requirements of government, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Ambrose told Space News in an interview p...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) — listed both in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index and the S&P 500 – has reported higher sales for its first quarter on global demand for its weapons and lifted its full-year earnings guidance despite a year-over-year profit decline. The Waltham, Mass.-based missile maker said first q...
Universities Space Research Association has secured a two-year, $193 million contract from NASA to provide academic and university-based program and project support for Ames Research Center’s science and engineering teams. The nonprofit research company will aid the center’s efforts to meet mission requirements for research and...
Virginia-based management consulting company DRT Strategies has appointed Dave Cogar as its new president. Cogar joined the company in February and has brought more than 25 years of experience as a P&L executive in line with CEO Susan Kidd’s goals to recruit and position senior leaders to support the company’s gro...
The GovCon Index soared 1.396 percent to 77.998 Wednesday on a series of pre-market earnings reports from several large defense prime contractors as Boeing (NYSE: BA) overcame an early morning decline to close in positive. GovCon Wire posted a summary of all six GovCon Index-related earnings figures plus that of United Techn...
The merger of Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) with Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) information systems and global solutions business involves “one or two” contracts for systems engineering and technical assistance service work that has largely been spun out of the latter company, Leidos CEO Roger Krone told investors Tuesday. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2016 ” The Raytheon-sponsored (NYSE: RTN) 2016 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition has crowned the University of Central Florida as national champion for the third consecutive year, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The company said Sunday the university bested nine other collegiate tea...
