Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has agreed to buy Laurel, Maryland-based digital services contractor Aquilent for approximately $250 million in a push to grow technology offerings, talent pipeline and citizen-focused digital services. Booz Allen said Tuesday the deal aims further the McLean, Virginia-based company’...
Fulcrum has won a potential five-year, $168.2 million task order to provide strategic planning, research, analysis and training services for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization‘s global situational awareness and communities of action missions. Four offers were submitted to the General Services Administration for t...
Norway’s defense ministry looks to purchase five Boeing-developed (NYSE: BA) maritime patrol aircraft worth approximately $1.15 billion for the country’s armed forces. The ministry said Friday it plans to acquire the P-8A Poseidon for efforts to monitor the country’s oceans and offer allied civil and military authori...
Canada plans to buy 18 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft from the U.S. government on a temporary basis for an undisclosed amount in an effort to support the country™s existing fleet of CF-18 fighter jets, National Post reported Tuesday. David Pugliese writes Canada™s liberal government announced th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 ” The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has awarded an ASRC Federal business unit a potential five-year, $35 million contract to provide engineering support for the agency’s Alaska-based satellite operations facility, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ASRC Federal Technical Services will pr...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index advanced for a third consecutive session Monday on a mix of contributions from large primes and services stocks but a sharp fall by Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) pared the GCI’s gain after the contractor’s guidance missed analysts’ expectations. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 21, 2016 ” Carahsoft Technology has partnered with Lexis Nexis to offer the latter’s legal software to government customers through the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V vehicles, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Carahso...
Stephan Farrand, a 16-year aerospace and defense industry veteran, has joined Los Angeles-based visual collaboration platforms provider Oblong Industries as regional sales manager of the company™s federal team. Farrand will work through the company™s office in Arlington, Virginia, and help the firm expand capabilities in support of municip...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index posted a small gain Friday to register its second consecutive weekly gain on continued positive sentiment among investors toward defense stocks compared to other sectors. U.S. stocks traded lower Friday on healthcare sector declines to continue the slowdown in markets from the post-election rally but t...
November 14 – November 18, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson One of the country™s œBig Three credit rating agencies has bolstered its view of the government contracting sector™s prospects under incoming President Donald Trump and in particular d...
