TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has stated that the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications services could help address the communication requirements of unified combatant commanders and other government officials, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company’s Global Xpress c...
BAE Systems‘ ship repair business in San Diego, California, has received a potential $192.7 million contract to provide post-delivery execution yard services for the first two guided missile destroyers of the U.S. Navy‘s Zumwalt class. The Defense Department said Monday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract ...
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) has named Kieran McGrath, previously interim chief financial officer, to executive vice president and CFO in a move that takes effect immediately. McGrath will report directly to CEO Mike Gregoire and manage the company’s global corporate and business unit financial functions, encompassing controller role, treasury...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded its best one-day gain in seven weeks Monday with a 2-percent gain that mirrored across-the-board rallies by U.S. stocks as investors welcomed the FBI‘s weekend letter to reiterate the agency’s stance that Hillary Clinton’s email usage was not a crime. The U.S. ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded five companies contract modifications worth $200 million combined to help the military branch develop, prototype, demonstrate, evaluate or transition cyber technology platforms. Work will occur at various contractor facilities in Alabama, New York and Virginia through Jan. 31, 2019, the Defense Departme...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and the Riverside Research Institute have won a pair of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth a combined $48 million to support the U.S. Air Force‘s mission systems open architecture science and technology program. The Defense Department said Thursday task orders under the program encompass ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 3, 2016 ” The National Security Agency has cleared Harris (NYSE: HRS) to update the company’s military radios to support compatibility with the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System satellite constellation, GovConWire reported Wednesday. Harris has deployed a compatibility software patch for the ...
A subsidiary of Japan-based conglomerate Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NYSE: NTT) has wrapped up its acquisition of Dell™s services business for $3.05 billion in a strategy to expand the former™s consulting and information technology services. NTT Data CEO John McCain will oversee the newly acquired firm that will operat...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed narrowly down in the midst of a larger selloff in U.S. financial markets Wednesday as declines by defense primes offset gains on guidance boosts by government services contractors Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) along with a sharp rise by McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). B...
AAI, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), has secured a potential $206.6 million foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Army to perform logistics maintenance work on Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aerial systems for Australia. The Defense Department said Monday the Army Contracting Command received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee co...
