Charlie Sowell, a retired U.S. Navy commander and a former senior vice president at Salient CRGT, has joined Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor iWorks as chief operating officer. The more than 30-year national community veteran will lead iWorks’ business development efforts in the personnel security, insider...
At Friday’s close the Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed down for the week 0.78 percent. On the week the major indices closed in the positive with mixed messages throughout the week about sub-par housing data, sluggish performance from the technology stocks, and Federal Reserve raising interest rates for the second time in 2017. Cr...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed down today, with a mix of service and platform companies leading the pack. Many U.S. stocks slipped today and the dollar weakened with Treasury yields due to sub-par housing data. These two factors, combined with the general slump in consumer sentiment, add merit to experts’ argument that Amer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide technical, functional, analytical, infrastructure and operations support to a Joint Staff J6 team under a potential $18 million task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday ...
The Week’s Top GovCon News Stories View this email in your browser Weekly Roundup June 12 – June 16 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Many agencies, companies, organizations and individuals were caught off-guard by the recent rise in cyber crime. Mali...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will supply the internal component of antenna masts for U.S. Navy surface ships under a contract from Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary ArgonST, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The contract covers aluminum welding and assembly at CTC’s environmental technology facility in Joh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to hold flight tests on a company-built unmanned reusable suborbital spaceplane at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday that Boeing and DARPA have selected Cape Cana...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has named the 19 winning local and regional governments, school districts, agencies and companies in the 2017 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the winners fall under the Best Practices, Dream Big and Pa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DVMT) Virtustream and Pivotal businesses have collaborated to provide an enterprise-grade cloud service that works to support the rapid development and deployment of applications in hybrid cloud environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Virtustream said Wednesday t...
The Department of Defense is planning to send between 3,000 to 5,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News. An announcement on the exact number from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected in the next few days or weeks. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that he cannot counter an increasingly violent, resurgent...
