The U.K.’s ministry of defense has awarded MBDA three contracts worth $689 million combined to produce and maintain various missile systems for the British armed forces. MBDA will supply Meteor and Common Anti-air Modular Missile weapons as well as maintain Sea Viper missiles in support of various ships ...
Weekly Roundup April 17 – April 21 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson We™re rapidly approaching the middle of FY 2017, and amidst all of the news surrounding President Trump™s FY 2018 budget plan, the border wall, and attempts at healthcare refor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2017 ” Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP‘s (NYSE: SAP) U.S. national security business, has urged policymakers to promote collaboration between government and industry in efforts to combat cyber threats against networks and critical infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. He wrote in an opinion pie...
Jonathan Schildkraut, formerly senior managing director for equity research at investment and consulting firm Guggenheim Partners, has joined CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE) as an executive vice president and chief strategy officer at the Dallas-based data center provider. He will report directly to CyrusOne CEO Gary Wojtaszek and oversee the company™s...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up as advancing stocks outpaced declining 2 to 1. U.S. markets closed mixed as the economy grew at modest to moderate rates per the Bloomberg report. IBM reported weak earnings which helped hold the markets back. At market close WTI was also down $1.86 to $ 50.55 per barrel in response...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) has wrapped up its purchase of airline cabin equipment provider B/E Aerospace (Nasdaq: BEAV) for approximately $8.6 billion in a push to diversify and expand its product portfolio and accelerate its global growth initiatives. The companies originally disclosed the $6.4 billion cash-and-stock transaction in Octo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2017 ” NTT Group‘s specialized security company has created a Global Threat Intelligence Center that will serve as a platform for the company’s intelligence resources to coordinate efforts to address security challenges, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday GTIC will r...
Weekly Roundup April 10 – April 13 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Since the election of President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has been a topic of much discussion, particularly the Customs and Border Protection agency. Trump’s camp...
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) have received regulatory clearances in Maryland, Delaware, Hawaii and Washington, D.C., for the companies™ planned merger that was announced in October 2016. The approvals are in addition to the clearances the firms earlier received from the states of ...
Gryphon Technologies has received a $75.9 million contract to offer engineering support services to the Ship Self-Defense System program office within the U.S. Navy‘s Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems through 2022. The company said Wednesday the contract is a single-award, competitively-bid deal. “We ...
