The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies spots on a potential five-year, $99 million contract to provide construction support services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. NAVFAC received 16 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that has a one-year base period and four one-year opt...
Weekly Roundup April 3 – April 7 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week the GovCon industry witnessed several large-scale mergers and acquisitions, as well as a number of executive moves in both the public and private sectors. Computer Sciences Corp....
The State Department has cleared Kuwait™s request to procure construction services in support of the establishment of various facilities at the country™s Al Mubarak air base under a potential $319 million foreign military sales agreement. Kuwait requested engineering, design, infrastructure assessment, contract administratio...
Shamlan Siddiqi, formerly vice president for digital and cloud services at NTT Data (NYSE: NTT), has assumed the role of chief technology officer for the company’s public sector business. NTT Data said Thursday Siddiqi will oversee the public sector group’s technology, advisory and innovation programs with government agencies. ̶...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) U.K. arm has received a potential $411.8 million contract from the British defense ministry to design and develop a tactical communication and information system. The award is the first contract issued under the MORPHEUS program that aims to modernize the command-and-control networks of the U.K....
Weekly Roundup March 27 – March 31 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, the GovCon industry witnessed several high-profile private sector executive moves. It goes without saying that these leadership changes could impact industry in a positive way...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2017 ” Hughes Network Systems will provide its satellite-based HughesNet Gen5 internet service to federal, local and state government agencies through the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the inte...
Australia’s defense ministry has issued requests for tender on a $26.7 billion frigate shipbuilding program to down-selected offerors BAE Sytems, Fincantieri and Navantia. The ministry said Friday it seeks to procure nine warships that will conduct maritime warfare operations, such as anti-submarine missions, under the...
Saab has received a potential nine-year, $358.4 million contract from Sweden™s defense material administration to develop and produce an anti-ship missile platform for integration with the country’s Visby-class corvette ships and Gripen E fighter jets. The anti-ship missile system will have an updated target seeker and combat ra...
Equity markets up for the first quarter: In spite of investors experiencing the Trump’s administration inability to pass healthcare legislation; the 0.25 percent increase in Federal Fund Rates (with strong speculation of more increases to come later in the year), the U.K. triggering Article 50, and the downward pressure on the energy sector an...
