Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed at a slight loss Wednesday to show a fourth session of tight movement over the last five on mixed activity in its large-cap members as U.S. stocks rode gains by energy producers on a 15-month high settlement in crude oil prices. GovCon Index laggers slightly edged gainers and...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed just shy of a full 1-percent gain Tuesday on a large upswing by Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) after the company’s successful rocket launch Monday night and gains by other prime contractors. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers at a 9-to-1 ratio and 10 of its 11 S&P 500 companies adva...
Mary Cullen, a 31-year veteran of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), has been appointed to succeed the retiring Barry Fletcher as vice president of nuclear propulsion within the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. Her appointment is effective Nov. 14 and she will manage the division’s...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index posted little change for a second consecutive session Monday on mixed results among its large-cap companies as U.S. stocks closed mostly lower due to a sell-off in consumer and energy sector shares that coincided with a decline in crude oil prices. GovCon Index laggers outnumbered advancers and four&nb...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index remained flat Friday with an equal number of advancing and declining issues amid U.S. stock market gains on bank earnings reports from Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) is the GCI’s top net gainer and Vectrus (NYSE: V...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held flat Friday despite gains in the larger U.S. stock market on positive bank earnings reports and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s comment that the country may be able to handle a “high pressure” economy with a tight labor market. Friday’s gain wa...
Preferred Systems Solutions has purchased Reston, Virginia-based software development services provider Synaptic Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to expand the former’s contract base and business network in the U.S. intelligence and national security communities. Josh Cury and Derrick Henley,  co-founders and owners of Synapt...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held higher Wednesday on gains by Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) as the U.S. stock bellwether S&P 500 index showed little change with the Federal Reserve‘s September meeting minutes the main focus of investor attention. GovCon ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plunged 1 percent Tuesday to post its worst one-day performance in two months with all 30 companies in red at the close as U.S. financial markets entered sell-off mode on investor worries over dim third quarter corporate earnings and the fast pace of inflation. Six of the GovCon Index’s 10 l...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 11, 2016 ” The U.S. Navy has commissioned the Huntington Ingalls Industries-built USS John P. Murtha amphibious transport dock ship Saturday in Pennsylvania with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as the keynote speaker, Executive Gov reported Monday. The Tribune-Democrat reported Saturday t...
