Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has received a potential 10-month, $246.5 million contract modification to continue to provide engineering, science and technical support for NASA™s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The modification seeks to exercise an option in the Engineering and Science Services and Skills Augmentation ...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) said Thursday it has promoted Kevin Phillips to the role of president and chief operating officer after 11 years as chief financial officer, during which the company’s revenue has climbed roughly 58 percent to $1.55 billion as of 2015. Phillips will be responsible for general management and control of opera...
A subsidiary of Japan-based conglomerate Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NYSE: NTT) has wrapped up its acquisition of Dell™s services business for $3.05 billion in a strategy to expand the former™s consulting and information technology services. NTT Data CEO John McCain will oversee the newly acquired firm that will operat...
The Defense Department has finalized a “unilateral contract” worth more than $6.1 billion to fund Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) low-rate initial production of 57 lot 9 F-35 fighter jets, Reuters reported Wednesday. Mike Stone writes the deal covers 42 F-35As for the U.S. Air Force, Japan, Israel a...
Military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to acquire government services contractor Camber Corp. for $380 million in a move to diversify revenue and add new information technology work with U.S. defense, intelligence and civilian agencies. Huntington Ingalls’ move for Camber comes in a year where other ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed narrowly down in the midst of a larger selloff in U.S. financial markets Wednesday as declines by defense primes offset gains on guidance boosts by government services contractors Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) along with a sharp rise by McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). B...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 2, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has secured a four-year, $73 million contract to manage several cloud computing platforms to support veteran health benefits and service delivery programs across the Department of Veterans Affairs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it will oversee VA’s&nbs...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 2, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received the last of the five NeXolve-built sunshield layers that will work to protect the optics and equipment of NASA‘s James Webb Space Observatory, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NASA said Tuesday the sunshield serves to prevent the sun’s heat from disr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 2, 2016 ” Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has completed several hot fire tests on two launch abort engines intended to support the propulsion system of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) CST-100 Starliner service module, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday the tests sought to determine the capa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 2, 2016 ” Turkey’s defense procurement panel is set to acquire a second batch of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft through the multinational Joint Strike Fighter program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Defense News reported Monday the country aims to build a new-generation aircraf...
