TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2017 ” A Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) SES satellite has launched to space carrying a Wide Area Augmentation System-hosted payload that will work to build on the global positioning system in support of the Federal Aviation Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. SES said Thursday the SES-15 hybrid satellite ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, MAY 22, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has finalized its speaker and panelist list for the 2017 Spring Cybersecurity Summit. Cybersecurity is one of the foremost concerns of leaders in both the public and private sectors. The rapid advancement of software, hardware and techn...
John Landwehr, a vice president and public sector chief technology officer at Adobe Systems (Nasdaq: ADBE), has said government agencies should leverage analytics and open standards to change the way they deliver information and services to citizens. Landwehr wrote that analytics tools, for instance, work to facilitate access to data that citizens n...
After posting strong quarterly earnings McKesson Corporation lead theGovCon Index. McKesson closed up $11.57 per share (8.18 percent) to $153.01. The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index ended Friday up 1.29 percent to 92.864. The major markets showed significant gains reversing the mid week slump with the DJIA recapturing 53 percent of...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index ended the week on a positive note up 1.29 percent on the day and up 0.15 percent on the week. McKesson lead the GovCon Index posting a $11.57 per share value increase (8.18 percent) on yesterday’s strong quarterly earning report. The major markets showed significant gains reversing the mid week slump...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2017 ” Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said he believes integrated hybrid cloud platforms will be a spending priority for federal agencies over the next three years in line with IT modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “[Federa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will provide tail rotor blade repairs in support of the U.S. Army‘s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters under a $37.6 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Defense Department said Wednesday Sikorsky received $18.4 mi...
Weekly Roundup May 15 – May 19 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Last week President Trump signed an executive order to bolster our nation’s cybersecurity and maintain and strengthen U.S. cybersecurity capabilities. The order addresses the n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2017 ” ViON has partnered with storage provider Kaminario to provide flash storage services to potential federal government customers in support of their IT modernization and cloud migration efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The companies will offer the Kaminario K2 all-flash storage array in an as-a-service mo...
Acting U.S. CIO Margie Graves said that thanks to the 2015 federal cybersecurity sprint, federal agencies were able to avoid the devastating WannaCry ransomware virus that infected more than 200,000 people and organizations in over 150 countries. When asked at the Public Sector Innovation Summit how security protocols implemented in the 30-day sprin...
