Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract modification to manufacture two passive microwave instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System, increasing the total contract value to $390.5 million. The $177.7 million modification awarded by NASA on behalf ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2016 ” Fulcrum has announced Laura Smith as the company’s program manager in charge of business opportunities with the Defense Department and the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services, GovCon Executive reported March 8. “Laura fits right into our team&br...
NASA will move forward to contract negotiations for the potential $104 million second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research program for future deep space missions. The space agency has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 U.S. small businesses and research organizations out of 323 responses received for the SBIR program,...
The GovCon Index turned upward in the last two hours of trade Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it would baseline interest rates unchanged and closed at a gain of 0.599 points to 73.987. Index stock Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) led all gainers at 9.44 percent after the information technology and communications contractor poste...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide cloud services to facilitate the migration of the Government Publishing Office‘s Integrated Library System Web portals to the cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. GPO said Thursday AWS’ cloud infrastructure will host GPO’s public-fac...
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, a former army surgeon general and head of the branch’s medical command, will join Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) U.S. government services subsidiary on April 6 as leader of the defense health practice. Accenture Federal Services said Wednesday she will oversee the pr...
Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has issued earnings and revenue guidance for 2016 with the midpoint outlooks respectively below and level the consensus Wall Street forecast on continued declines in sales for programs based in Afghanistan. The Colorado Springs-based informat...
The GovCon Index failed to turnaround declines incurred during morning trade Monday and ended at a loss of 0.237 points to 73.743 as U.S. stocks hovered in and out of positive territory throughout the afternoon session. Investors have turned their attention to the Federal Reserve‘s two-day meeting Wednesday and Thursday wit...
Bud Langston, a 16-year veteran of Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), has joined Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as vice president of strategy and business development for the cloud computing company’s North American public sector business, GovCon Wire has learned. He previously was VP of Oracle’s public sector operations in the North American region and led b...
The General Services Administration has awarded 31 companies spots on two potential 10-year contracts worth up to $30 billion combined to provide building maintenance and operations support at the federal government’s Zone 1 sites. Nine companies will compete for task orders under the BMO Unrestricted contract and 24 vendor...
