A team composed of Dell EMC, Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has received a potential five year, $1 billion contract to build a cloud-based collaboration and unified communications platform for the U.S. Air Force. The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service awarded the contract as part of th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 ” A General Atomics business unit has completed the first test flight activity at its recently opened Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, using a Block 5 Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday General Atom...
Margaret Anderson, formerly executive director at Washington-based FasterCures, has joined Deloitte Consulting LLP as a managing director for federal health practice. Deloitte said Monday Anderson will oversee the firm™s health outcome improvement efforts through the advancement of platforms and collaboration with stakeholders across feder...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential 10-year, $269 million contract to help NOAA’s National Weather Service operate and maintain a system designed to generate weather forecasts and warnings. Raytheon said Friday it will continue to manage and update hardware, software, archi...
Weekly Roundup September 11 – September 15 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, let™s take a look at the current landscape of mergers and acquisitions in the GovCon sector. Notable M&A activity includes: CenturyLink adjusting the clo...
SNA International has won a potential five-year, $110 million from the U.S. Army to support the military’s forensic medical investigations. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will provide logistics, administrative management, scientific and technical services for the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. ...
Within the proverbial dust cloud of the global fray, adversaries of all kinds abound. Could an antagonistic government take down our power grid or cripple our infrastructure through cyber assault? Are agricultural vulnerabilities more of a threat than a pathogen epidemic? Should the possibility of chemical attack be more of a concern to our troops...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TnvnLCTj10 Fort Bliss™ Special Operations Recruitment Battalion hosted a fitness and team-building competition in honor of fallen hero – Green Beret, and El Paso native – Staff Sgt. Joshua Mills. Staff Sgt. Mills died, Sep. 16, 2009, after his vehicle struck an IED while conducting a mounted patrol i...
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has pushed back the projected closing date for its pending $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) through a cash-and-stock transaction from Sept. 30 to mid-to-late October. The revised timeframe for the transaction™s intended closure was based on the California administrative l...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 13, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has added Kenneth Brennan to the panel for the FY18 Budgets & Procurement Forum. As the fiscal year comes to a close, industry is eagerly looking forwards toward FY2018. Many changes are on the horizon, such as the...
