TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 11, 2016 ” Bob Billeaud, formerly vice president for intelligence solutions at SOS International, has been promoted as senior VP for operations, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. In his prior role, he oversaw SOSi’s acquisition and integration of Virginia-based intelligence con...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has awarded Unisys (NYSE: UIS) a potential five-year, $11.2 million contract to move approximately 4, 000 OCC employees to a cloud-based email platform. Unisys said Thursday it will provide analysis, design, transition planning and development services intended to facilitate OCC&...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) is open to acquisitions and has allocated a portion of its cash deployment strategy for potential deals, the company’s chief executive told investors Wednesday. “They have to give us a technology edge as we think about cloud-enabled digitization of the marketplace. We always look for customer intimacy and competit...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded its worst session in four weeks Wednesday despite gainers as the clear majority after Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) announced it would restate all financial results dated back to April 2014. Shares in Orbital ATK plummeted 20.25 percent — or $17.987 — at the&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 10, 2016 ” Three LMI acquisition and financial management professionals were part of a government-industry team that received the Department of Homeland Security‘s Building Partnerships Award for their effort to deploy new technology for first responders, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. ...
NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA), Sierra Nevada, Bigelow Aerospace and NanoRacks were chosen t...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential $52.5 million task order from the Defense Health Agency to assist the assistant defense secretary for health affairs in efforts to implement action plans resulting from the Defense Department‘s military health service review. DoD said Tuesday the company will pro...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rebounded Tuesday with gainers outnumbering laggers by a roughly 4-to-1 ratio against a largely choppy day for U.S. stocks as the general financial markets continue to struggle for direction. Ten of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed in green with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) the best ne...
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 ...
