Stephan Farrand, a 16-year aerospace and defense industry veteran, has joined Los Angeles-based visual collaboration platforms provider Oblong Industries as regional sales manager of the company™s federal team. Farrand will work through the company™s office in Arlington, Virginia, and help the firm expand capabilities in support of municip...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded a 0.134-percent or 0.117-point increase Friday to 87.249 to register its second consecutive weekly gain as investors continue to have a positive outlook on defense stocks compared to healthcare and other sectors. GCI gainers outnumbered laggards Friday with L-3 Communications (N...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 ” The U.S. Government Accountability Office has awarded CGI (NYSE: GIB) a five-year, $7.2 million contract to support the migration of the former’s financial management, budgeting and procurement transaction processing, implementation and operations to the cloud, ExecutiveBiz said Thursday. The company sai...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index posted a small gain Friday to register its second consecutive weekly gain on continued positive sentiment among investors toward defense stocks compared to other sectors. U.S. stocks traded lower Friday on healthcare sector declines to continue the slowdown in markets from the post-election rally but t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 ” Vencore will continue to support the General Services Administration‘s Public Buildings Information Technology Services effort under a potential five-year, $27 million re-compete contract, ExecutiveBiz said Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will maintain the PB-ITS’ Occupancy Agreement, OA Bil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received certification from the National Security Agency to allow the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack radio system to operate with the Defense Department‘s Mobile User Objective System waveform, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 ” Carahsoft has agreed to be a federal government market distributor of Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and offer the latter’s information technology security platform to the public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Palo Alto Networks’ Next Generation Security Platform is designed to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has promoted Joe Armstrong, previously director of training and operation solutions, to vice president and general manager of its Canadian defense and security business unit, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. He will be responsible for CAE Canada Defense & Security‘s NATO Flyi...
The State Department has approved Qatar’s request to buy 72 Boeing (NYSE: BA) F-15 aircraft, weapons, related support, equipment and training services under a potential $21.1 billion foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the agreement aims to support political stability and ...
The State Department has given Kuwait the go-ahead to procure Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft and related components and support from the U.S. government under a potential $10.1 billion foreign military sales agreement. Boeing, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and General Electr...
