The State Department has approved a potential $785 million foreign military sale of munitions and related sustainment and support services to the United Arab Emirates. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday the deal covers GBU-10 guidance kits with Mk-84/BLU-117 bombs, GBU-12 kits with Mk-82/BLU-111 bombs, GBU-31V1 kits ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index scored a gain in choppy trade Tuesday on help from defense prime stocks such as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), which posted second quarter earnings and sales above analyst expectations but issued some caution to analysts on future earnings and the F-35 program. The GovCon Index closed up 81.865 points to 0.27...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) envisions further reductions in its outstanding share count after the merger of its information systems and global solutions business into Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) completes on its scheduled closure date of Aug. 16, Lockheed Chief Financial Officer Bruce Tanner told investors Tuesday. Tanner’s com...
Greg Hyslop, senior vice president of engineering, test and technology at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been appointed to also serve as chief technology officer of the company. He will succeed the retiring John Tracy, CTO for 10 years and a 35-year company veteran, and continue to report to Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, t...
The top uniformed officer over the U.S. government’s foreign military sales program will keynote an Aug. 3 breakfast forum hosted by Executive Mosaic’s Potomac Officers Club in Falls Church, Virginia to discuss the global arms trade’s current environment and the role of domestic industry in efforts to help defense agencies sup...
July 11 – July 15 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson   One of the world’s two largest airplane manufacturers is mulling acquisitions in the defense services arena that would continue a trend among prime contractors toward capability-based dea...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 14, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) and Draken International have expanded their partnership to jointly pursue market opportunities for adversary and aggressor air training services outside Canada, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The companies will integrate live, virtual and constructive training to support air...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held positive throughout Wednesday trade as U.S. stocks traded in narrow range on a fall in crude oil prices with second quarter earnings season on the horizon. The GovCon Index gained 0.229 points to a new record of 81.751 with eight of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500 stocks in green as the U...
BAE Systems will sign a potential 10-year, $2.8 billion agreement with the U.K.’s ministry of defense to support the country’s Typhoon fleet in partnership with the U.K. air force and Leonardo-Finmeccanica. BAE Systems said Tuesday the formal Typhoon Total Availability Enterprise agreement will establish a single prog...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 12, 2016 ” CGI (NYSE: GIB) has launched a records management tool for government agencies to support their efforts to comply with the White House’s directive on electronic records management modernization, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the Records Management as a Service ...
