TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 28, 2017 ” Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has said he anticipates growth in federal defense spending for fiscal year 2018 under Donald Trump’s administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Tribune-Democrat reported Sunday Sheehan noted potential advantages to local contract...
The U.S. Army has awarded eight companies positions on a potential nine-year, $3.04 billion contract to support research and development of space or high-altitude and missile defense technologies. Contractors will vie for task orders to help the Army design, build, integrate, demonstrate and provide domain-one services for hardware and sof...
Christine Couch, formerly director of operations at CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), has joined MetroStar Systems as senior vice president for the defense and intelligence business at the Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor. MetroStar said Wednesday Couch will be responsible for helping develop and execute the com...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.464-percent climb to 88.863 as gainers outnumbered laggards at a 2-to-1 ratio with strong performances by defense prime stocks. L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) was GCI’s top net performer while Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) led the listed stocks in percentage gained. The Index’...
Weekly Roundup January 9 – January 13 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This first full week back to work for us after the Christmas and New Year™s holiday season also happens to represent the last one before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Bluewater Defense a potential $118.7 million modification to exercise a one-year option on a previously awarded contract for the supply of military uniforms. Bluewater Defense will deliver various uniforms to the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and the Afghan military under the contract option, the Defens...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 ” The Defense Science Board has selected William LaPlante, vice president of Mitre‘s intelligence business, to co-chair a task force on software design and procurement for defense systems, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Mitre said Friday LaPlante will help lead the task force that will evaluat...
Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis has agreed to resign from his board position at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and divest all of his business holdings with the company if the Senate confirms him as the next leader of the Defense Department, Politico reported Saturday. Jeremy Herb and Connor O™Brien write Mattis, who ...
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential three-year, $163.3 million contract to provide training services related to the Patriot air and missile defense system to Qatar through a foreign military sales agreement. The firm-fixed-price contract covers pre-Patriot military occupational training, Patriot training classes and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” The State Department has approved the $37 million sale of 750 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kits and associated equipment to the government of Kuwait, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday the foreign military sales contract wil...
