The State Department has approved Finland™s request to buy F/A-18 aircraft equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $156 million foreign military sales agreement. Finland asked to procure 90 Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems, test and training equipment, spare...
Space Systems Loral has been awarded a potential five-year, $127 million firm-fixed-price contract to support the development, deployment and operation of a robotic space vehicle for NASA’s in-orbit satellite servicing mission. SSL will provide spacecraft bus, critical hardware and associated services for the Restore-L ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed above the 90-point mark for the first time since its October 2014 inception as Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and services contractors led gains to offset declines by Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and other defense primes on a positive day for U.S. stocks. Monday’s stro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has added Informatica to the AWS Public Sector Partner Program to deliver the latter’s data management services to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Informatica said Thursday it will work to establish a hybrid data management pl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, believes the incoming U.S. administration will facilitate continued maturity of satellite service partnerships between the commercial and government sectors, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Space News reported Tues...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International will provide acquisition management support to Air Force Space Command‘s cyberspace superiority division under a $3 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said October it received the award throug...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Howard Steinman, a partner at A.T. Kearney and leader for the Americas region with the company’s public sector practice, has said companies should work to build on awareness and public trust as part of industry’s role in cyber governance. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 5, 2016 ” Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) U.S. public sector business, has noted that the government utilizes open source technology as the development model for digital transformation efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Digital transformation is an uns...
Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies should implement big data and analytics platforms in an effort to generate insights or œoperational intelligence from machine data and facilitate the decision-making process. Davis wrote that the collection, correlation and analys...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday up 0.442 percent to 89.812 and ended the week with its fourth straight five-day advance on reports of nonfarm public and private sector payrolls in November above analyst expectations and a likely interest rate increase Dec. 14. GCI gainers outnumbered decliners Friday by a 2-to...
