Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has received a potential five-year, $356 million contract to research and develop navigation systems for the Federal Aviation Administration. The Navigation Technical Assistance Contract II seeks to address commercial aviation efficiency and safety challenges through the integration o...
Deltek has agreed to acquire public-sector market intelligence provider Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI) for approximately $70 million in cash, or $9.00 per share. Both companies expect to complete their combination in the fourth quarter of 2017 and Deltek said Thursday the deal will expand the firm’s GovWin IQ information pr...
Todd Ernst, vice president of investor relations at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has been promoted to VP of corporate development in a move that takes effect Nov. 6. He will oversee Raytheon’s mergers-and-acquisitions program in addition to his current responsibilities and succeed Michael Cody, who will retire as corporate development lead after an e...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $130.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to obtain long lead materials for Japan’s future Global Hawk unmanned aerial systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the materials are needed to commence the production of three Block 30 Global Hawk vehicles, two...
A Tyonek Native Corporation subsidiary has secured a potential $110 million contract to update environmental control units for the U.S. Army. Tyonek said Thursday its TFab Defense Systems business will work with HDT Global and Rocky Research to produce, test and deliver four new variants of ECU variants designed to comply w...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) continued its fifth consecutive day of record highs, up 0.32 percent to 109.157 with advancing shares outpacing declining 3 to 1. The markets furthered their positive trend with the S&P500 closing up 0.56 percent to 2,552.07, while the DJIA posted its seventh day of gains clos...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 5, 2017 ” QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has provided a hybrid unemployment insurance processing system to Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi and Rhode Island in line with the Labor Department‘s call for practices that help streamline the workforce system, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 28. The company said Sept. 27&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 5, 2017 ” A CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) subsidiary will help the engineering and analysis division of the Environmental Protection Agency‘s Office of Water design and execute studies as well as develop and validate laboratory methods under a potential $24.5 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The com...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 5, 2017 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has named Robert Work, former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, as a senior fellow to help shape government and military policy and technology programs, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. “His broad expertise, particularly his insights o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 5, 2017 ” Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has partnered with Esri to demonstrate an unmanned aerial vehicle with a geographic information system for potential use during firefighting missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Insitu said Tuesday the team held test flights of the ScanEagle UAV at the...
