Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed up on the day as markets responded positively to the Federal Reserve raising the benchmark lending rate. Not to anybody’s surprise the Federal Reserve raised rates by one quarter point to 1.0 percent, while also giving a strong indication for two additional rate increases later in the year. Of ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2017 ” Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has appointed Dale Moore, former business development lead at its U.S. Army and missile defense division, as vice president for business development, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday Moore’s appointment also includes the rol...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has utilized a data visualization platform from the Department of Homeland Security to sequence mosquito DNA as part of efforts to establish an early indicator of disease, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. DHS said Thursday the company used the Krona open source softw...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2017 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) will help Australia’s scientific research agency CSIRO build a data analytics platform that will work to identify security risks at land, air and sea entry points, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said March 7 that it will collaborate with CSIRO’s data scienc...
The U.S. Navy has selected six companies to compete for task orders to provide radiological remediation support services at several Navy and Marine Corps bases under a potential five-year, $240 million contract. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest in San Diego received eight offers for the indefinite-delivery/indef...
Mike LeFever, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and co-founder of Invictus Advisors, has joined Iomaxis as chief operating officer of the Fredericksburg, Virginia-based technology and engineering services contractor. Iomaxis said Tuesday LeFever will help scale the company’ national footprint and operational capacities ...
SpaceX has won a potential two-year, $96.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to help the service branch send a GPS III satellite into orbit. The Defense Department said Tuesday that SpaceX will conduct satellite launch vehicle production, launch operations, mission integration, mission and spaceflight worthiness efforts un...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index followed the markets down today closing at 92.883 off 0.445 percent. The major markets were dragged down by energy stocks as Saudi Arabia announced that they will increase production back above ten million barrels per day. WTI crude fell below the $48 mark closing the day at $47.87 per barrel off 1.10%....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2017 ” Deloitte‘s consulting business is set to receive a contract from NASA for support in the design and development of a proof of concept for robotic process automation technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The space agency indicated in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday that it intends...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2017 ” Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of defense and intelligence systems at Hughes Network Systems, has said commercial satellite operators have expressed some concern over the schedule backlog in the launch of military communications satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. National Defense Magazi...
