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Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed slightly down for a second consecutive session Thursday as notable gains by Textron (NYSE: TXT) after third quarter earnings and CACI International (NYSE: CACI) were offset by declines in Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and other large prime contractors. GovCon Index laggers outnumbere...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received the first set of propulsion system hardware for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft from Aerojet Rocketdyne, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday the delivery includes the low-pressure port and starboard manifold assemblies. The propulsion ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received an award from the Air Traffic Control Association for the company’s work to facilitate safety and efficiency in air traffic control, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday ATCA presented the Earl F. Ward Memorial Award during the 61st A...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has become the Estonian Defense Industry Association’s sixth international member to build on a previous relationship between the company and Estonia’s government on cybersecurity collaboration, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Raytheon International CEO John Harris met wi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” Bill Birkhofer, senior vice president for aerospace and defense at Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has said the company sees opportunities in commercial space launch services and the “commercialization” of low Earth orbit, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Birkhofer, an inductee into Execut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 20, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said the company’s planned $140 million acquisition of The Radiant Group serves to integrate the latter’s software development and engineering workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. National De...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received a potential $114 million task order to develop and implement an in-depth strategy for the Defense Department to identify and neutralize hostile cyber network activity at the Pentagon. The company said Thursday it also seeks to leverage a range of tactics, procedures and techniques to help DoD b...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) reported third quarter earnings below Wall Street’s expectation Thursday on restructuring costs and lower commercial deliveries in its Bell Helicopter segment. GovCon Index-S&P 500 company Textron reported $0.61 earnings per share versus the $0.67 analyst consensus with third quarter EPS ex...
Richard Roth, a former member of the Sevatec board of advisers, will be in charge of finance, accounting and contract management at the company as well as support strategic and operational objectives as Sevatec’s new CFO. The company said Thursday Roth has managed the business operations, mergers and acquisitions, cont...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential one-year, $35.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to implement risk reduction efforts for the future MQ-25 unmanned carrier aviation air system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will work to refine concepts and develop trade space ahead of the engineering and...
