Marcy Palus, formerly vice president of contracts at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been named VP of contracts management at CenturyLink‘s (NYSE: CTL) federal government solutions group, Washington Technology reported Wednesday. Mark Hoover writes Palus will oversee CenturyLink’s federal contracts division and professional&nb...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index moved higher for the second day in a row Wednesday on broad gains across almost all of the thirty stocks that make up index. The Dow Jones Industrial moved ever closer to the 20, 000 mark, closing at 19, 942.16 up 0.30 percent. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggards by a 14-to-1 ratio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” SpaceX has scheduled the initial launch of Iridium Communications‘ (Nasdaq: IRDM) NEXT satellites on Jan. 8 after investigations revealed cause of the Falcon 9 rocket explosion, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Washington Post reported Monday the company discovered the cause to be a press...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has stated government organizations should take steps to employ a cyber situational awareness model to support cybersecurity collaboration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The model should incorporate analytics and en...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” The U.S. Army has awarded Carahsoft Technology a two-year, $23.9 million contract to help obtain VMware product licenses to support the management and virtualization of the former’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical server infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Carah...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded ICF nine contracts worth a total of $34.4 million to provide campaign development services for the organization’s public health programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Friday it will provide research, creative, dig...
Xerox (NYSE: XRX) has officially separated into two publicly traded companies, one focused on digital printing technology and the other selling business process services. The digital print technology company will carry the Xerox name while the business process service provider will operate independently as Conduent (NYS...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract for consulting services to support the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to update its Microsoft products. The company will develop new enterprise capacities for the Air Force Network to help address the milita...
MacAulay-Brown has purchased Enlighten IT Consulting for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand MacB™s portfolio of cybersecurity offerings and client base in the federal market. MacB will operate EITC as a wholly owned subsidiary and that EITC CEO Shawn Justice will directly report to Sid Fuchs, president and CEO of MacB, EITC said...
NASA plans to launch a potential $188 million mission by 2020 to explore and collect information on black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and other cosmic X-rays. The space agency selected the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission out of three mission concepts that were chosen from a set of 14 offers that NASA received after it...
