The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded 21 companies spots under a potential 10-year, $22.3 billion acquisition vehicle that covers information technology upgrades support for VA and other federal agencies. The contractors will compete for task orders to provide healthcare IT, systems and software engineering, enterp...
The Defense Health Agency views the military’s transition to a new commercial electronic health record system as one path for the armed forces to design healthcare in a way more centered around a model based on interoperability and centered around patients, DHA’s director told the Potomac Officers Club Tuesday. U.S. N...
Chantilly, Virginia-based business management consultant firm Eagle Ray has named Susan Case as the company’s new vice president for Intelligence Community business development. Case joined the company in February from American Systems, where she was VP of the national security unit, and works to develop new business opportunities an...
The GovCon Index held lower throughout the trading session Tuesday and closed at a decline of 1.071 percent to 72.599 on earnings misses from two GCI stocks and investor reaction to oil price declines and new trade data out of China. ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) dropped 8.37 percent a day after the consulting services company post...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2016 ” Bechtel has partnered with BWX Technologies to build a small modular nuclear reactor for certification by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as part of the Generation mPower project, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Bechtel said Friday it will provide engineering, construction and program management...
Barbie Bigelow, a former senior vice president and chief information officer at Engility™s (NYSE: EGL) TASC subsidiary, will join Pasadena, Calif.-based construction services contractor Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) as SVP and CIO. Bigelow will directly report to Chief Financial Officer Kevin Berryman and start in the role on&n...
Massachusetts-based hyperconvergence software startup SimpliVity has hired former Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) sales executives Gary DePreta and Geoff Fancher to join the former company’s sales team, CRN reported Monday. Kevin McLaughlin writes DePreta, formerly director of the national security agencies business at Cisco, will serve as head of S...
ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported 2015 and fourth quarter earnings and revenue below Wall Street’s forecasts on a strong U.S. dollar that impacted commercial and international government sales. The Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting servic...
A subsidiary of CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential five-year, $179.9 million contract to help the U.S. Special Operations Command gather, analyze and exploit geospatial imagery intelligence. The Defense Department said Monday that CACI-Athena Inc. will perform work in various U.S. locations and overseas unde...
The GovCon Index failed to hold onto positive momentum from a midday spike barely above the gain line Monday and ended at a decline of 0.573 points to 73.385 in a mixed day for U.S. financial markets. Declines among defense product and platform manufacturers in the Index lagged compared to services-oriented companies that led gainers....
