TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a Security Technical Implementation Guide for VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) AirWatch 9.X enterprise mobility management platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The STIG aims to define AirWatch 9.X’s information technology cy...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded a Harris (NYSE: HRS) subsidiary a $53 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to modernize the military branch’s ground-based counter communication system, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Harris Space and Intelligence Systems will update the Block 10.1 syst...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a $13.3 million contract modification to extend its support for the agency’s Adaptive Radar Countermeasures project for airborne electronic warfare systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The ARC program™s miss...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The Defense Department‘s cost assessment and program evaluation office has unveiled its new Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) cost-tracking software to aid DoD estimators in evaluating the agency’s programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The FlexFile program is design...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Australian subsidiary has received a potential 10-year, $42 million contract to continue its sustainment services for Australia’s Joint Project 2030-Joint Command Support Environment system, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The JCSE is a system that is use...
AECOM (NYSE: ACM) and Teresa Carlson of Amazon Web Services have received the œContractor and Executive of the Year honors at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in recognition of companies and leaders of firms with more than $300 million in annual revenue. AECOM and Carlson, vice president of the global public sector at AWS...
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has completed its purchase of Point Grey Research for $259 million cash in a strategy to expand the former™s footprint in intelligent imaging and machine vision markets. The newly acquired company will operate as Integrated Imaging Solutions business under FLIR™s original equipment manufacturer an...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index enters the eve of the U.S. presidential election on a six-week streak of declines with Friday’s close at 78.088, up 0.024 points from Thursday. Both the GCI and U.S. stock market at-large have felt effects of election-related uncertainty among investors over the past month with frequent swings between...
Nick Noviello, formerly chief financial officer at Blue Coat, has been appointed executive vice president and CFO at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). Noviello will succeed the departing CFO Thomas Seifert on Dec. 1 and will continue to report to CEO Greg Clark, Symantec said Thursday. Seifert, who has been CFO since March 2014 at Symantec, will...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index gave back most of its morning gains Friday to close in narrow range on mixed large-cap stock performances and register its sixth straight weekly decline. Friday afternoon trading activity saw the GCI reset itself with the larger U.S. financial market as investors watched for new election-related developments and...
