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...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and SpaceX have secured four additional missions each to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program. NASA said Wednesday that Boeing and SpaceX each have six orders for crewed missions now under the companies’ respective Commercial Crew Tr...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index moved higher Tuesday on broad gains among defense primes as U.S. stocks closed significantly higher with the Dow Jones Industrial flirting with the 20, 000 mark. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggards by a 3-to-1 ratio Tuesdayy and nine of its 11 S&P 500 components advanced with co-listed ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” Steve Grobman, Intel Security‘s chief technology officer, has said that retaliating against Russia’s alleged cyber hacking of the U.S. elections could escalate to war, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Obama administration’s response could range from additional economic sanction...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” The U.S. Navy‘s General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) USS Rafael Peralta guided-missile destroyer has finished its two-day acceptance trials off the coast of Maine in an effort to evaluate the ship and its crew, Executive Gov reported Friday. The Navy said Wednesday its Board of Inspection and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a potential five-year, $98.1 million contract for an updated field artillery tactical data system, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The system will work to address the mission needs of the U.S. Army™s program executive office for comm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” The Professional Services Council has appointed new executives and re-elected continuing members to serve on its 2017 board of directors and executive committee, GovCon Executive said Tuesday. The organization said Dec. 16 the board will be comprised of 26 executives, including Engility (NYS...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) will employ a backup communications interface for its delivery drones as a first line of defense against jamming, hacking and human attacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company plans to utilize a “mesh network” of multiple autonomous vehicles upon the compromise of a...
