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...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential seven-year $288 million contract to build a laser-based training device for the U.S. Army to simulate the firing capacity of soldiers and combat vehicles as well as test the engagement effects of multiple weapons. The Defense Department said Friday the Instrumentable ...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eG_TSYVFko U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, conduct a frag assault course at Graze Range, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds for Talon Exercise (TalonEx) 2-17, Yuma, A.Z., March 21, 2017. The purpose of TalonEx was for ground combat units to conduct integrated train...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary and U.S. Ordnance have secured positions on a potential six-year, $221 million contract to provide flexible and fixed variations of a machine gun system to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Thursday that U.S. Ordnance and General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems busin...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 30, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have performed initial integration of their respective technologies for a soft-kill demonstrator of the U.S. Army‘s Modular Active Protection System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lockheed said Tuesday its Open Architecture P...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TE4iUfTEA8 U.S Marines attending Basic Combat Engineer Course, fire Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapons as part of weapons familiarization training on Marine Corps Engineer School, Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 21, 2017. The mission of Marine Corps Engineer School is to deliver approved engineer focused program...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 29, 2017 ” Bill Varner, president and chief operating officer of ManTech International‘s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, has been inducted into this year’s Executive Mosaic Wash100 for his leadership in cyber and enterprise IT services. The Wash100 is the premier group ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2017 ” Cubic (NYSE: CUB) will participate at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition from April 3 to 5 and showcase its air combat and maritime virtual training systems as well as C4ISR platforms, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday its global defense and mission solutions businesses will...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) has won a potential $142.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help the service branch update an airborne training platform called Tactical Combat Training System. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will provide TCTS Increment II participant and ground subsystems, remote range un...
