Canada plans to buy 18 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft from the U.S. government on a temporary basis for an undisclosed amount in an effort to support the country™s existing fleet of CF-18 fighter jets, National Post reported Tuesday. David Pugliese writes Canada™s liberal government announced th...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index set a new closing record Tuesday with a 1-percent gain paced by defense prime and government services stocks as the U.S. bellwether S&P 500 also ended at an all-time high in spite of healthcare stock declines. GovCon Index advancers outnumbered decliners at a 4-to-1 ratio and nine of its ...
L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has purchased U.K.-based aviation security technology maker MacDonald Humfrey Automation in a deal potentially worth up to $315.5 million for an effort to add new automation and robotic tools for deployment at airports worldwide. The deal comes nearly one month after L-3 said it would purchase Impla...
Carey Smith, former president of Honeywell‘s (NYSE: HON) defense and space business, has joined Parsons Corp. as president of the Pasadena, Calif.-based engineering and infrastructure services contractor’s U.S. federal business unit. Parsons said Tuesday Tom Roell will return to his full-time post as vice chairman and chief risk adviser ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 ” The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has awarded an ASRC Federal business unit a potential five-year, $35 million contract to provide engineering support for the agency’s Alaska-based satellite operations facility, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ASRC Federal Technical Services will pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 ” Aerospace Industries Association has elected Roger Krone, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) chairman and CEO, to its executive board of governors for 2017, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Krone will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) CEO Dennis Muilenburg and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy, who will respectiv...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 ” Mark Scallion, vice president of SAP‘s (NYSE: SAP) public services unit, has stated that SAP’s federal civilian business has seen increased business in big data and analytics as it works to help agencies consolidate their data into a single platform. Scallion told ExecutiveBiz in an interview ...
Tasos Tsolakis, executive vice president and chief information and global services officer at Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), will leave the Boston-based storage and information management services provider on March 31, 2017 in a series of executive transitions at the company. Iron Mountain said Tuesday Tsolakis’ informatio...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Engility (NYSE: EGL) and Decisive Analytics have won spots on a potential $240 million contract to support the statutory and regulatory policy, guidance, specialty engineering and human capital functions of the Washington Headquarters Services. WHS received three offers for the mu...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index advanced for a third consecutive session Monday on a mix of contributions from large primes and services stocks but a sharp fall by Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) pared the GCI’s gain after the contractor’s guidance missed analysts’ expectations. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by...
