Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased Duluth, Georgia-based Richland Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a move to grow processing subsystems offerings for aerospace and defense clients. Mercury said Wednesday it plans to keep RTL™s presence in Duluth and that the transaction complements its purchase of Switzerland-based military and ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been selected to support a $442.9 million effort to upgrade the Australian air force’s fleet of E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft. The service branch said Wednesday Boeing will equip E-7As with new combat identification sensors, tactical data links and communication and en...
Jin Kang, formerly executive vice president and chief operations officer at WidePoint (NYSE: WYY), has been promoted to president and CEO at the McLean, Virginia-based managed mobility services provider. He will serve as a member of WidePoint™s board of directors and succeeds Jeff Nyweide, who resigned from his posts six months after he joined ...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has closed its acquisition of NES Associates in a push to help government clients accelerate adoption of new information technology platforms for their digital transformation efforts. CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior first announced the deal at the company’s 2017 fiscal-year earnings call held May 24. Prior, an in...
Returning after the Independence Day Holiday the markets closed mixed. The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) closed up for the third straight day to 96.213 a gain of 0.172 percent threatening to set a new high. Advancers outpaced decliners 2 to 1. The top five ‘Net Performers‘ were major platform companies that are all S&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said a combination of automation technology and a highly skilled workforce will help DoD build on its cybersecurity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. He wrote in a guest piece published S...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Stacy Schwartz, vice president of public safety within AT&T‘s (NYSE: T) government solutions business, has said in an interview she believes diversity in points of view and in the workforce serves to bring competitive advantage to the company, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. She told Fe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Security Service for compliance with security requirements under the National Industrial Security Program, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company sa...
After North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Monday, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. That meeting will likely be held Wednesday with the 15-member council, as concerns mount that the regime is developing an inter-continental ballistic missile that ca...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys™ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business, has urged federal agencies to conduct a reassessment of their information technology governance frameworks to drive modernization efforts under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Pu...
