John Hays, a former chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined Merlin International as director of federal healthcare solutions business at the Englewood, Colorado-based information technology and cybersecurity services contractor. Merlin said Wednesday the 25-year management and technology veteran ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received an $82.8 million contract modification to produce AIM-9X Block II missile systems for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force as well as the governments of Poland, Indonesia, Romania and Belgium. The modification was awarded by the Navy and covers the full-rate production of 180 lot 1...
Six companies will compete for task orders under a U.S. Navy contract to provide website maintenance and software quality assurance support services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. SSC Pacific in San Diego received nine offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers test and e...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has unveiled plans to establish the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region in 2018 to provide cloud hosting services to government customers in the East Coast, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the facility will be its second after the AWS GovCloud (U...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up for the sixth consecutive day with a mix of service providers and platform companies leading the pack. Officials at the Federal Reserve went ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation. Technology stocks slid to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Vencore‘s technical director for analytics is set to receive the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s first-ever Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence for his research and other contributions to help advance exploration programs, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said June 7 ASF ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has entered into a partnership with ThreatConnect for the integration of their managed security service and threat defense technology to build on clients’ cybersecurity posture, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. ThreatConnect said Monday its SAP HANA-powered security p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled an Internet of Things hub that aims to assist Azure Government cloud customer agencies in efforts to track, manage and secure connected devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Tom Keane, general manager of the Microsoft Azure engineering team, wrote in a blog entry pu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has partnered with a ViON subsidiary to integrate their technologies to offer big data analytics in an as-a-service model to commercial and government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ViON’s Ascolta business said Thursday it will utilize the Hortonwor...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will divide the network and space systems and military aircraft segments within its defense, space and security business unit into four smaller entities in a move that will take effect July 1. Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing BDS, said Tuesday the reorganization is part of the company™s efforts to ramp up the competitiven...
