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...
October 31 – November 4, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson In this last full week before a most unusual election, the evolving narrative of a re-shaping government contracting landscape added more chapters as this week™s assortment of stories Go...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” United Launch Alliance has scheduled the launch of DigitalGlobe‘s (NYSE: DGI) WorldView-4 commercial imaging satellite onboard its Atlas V 401 configuration rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov.11, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) WorldV...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has delivered a C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter to the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas where it will be assigned to the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command™s 433rd Airlift Wing, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Tuesday the airlifter was ferried from ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has stated that the U.S. military should utilize emerging electromagnetic platforms to support its technological superiority, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Matthews noted that future higher data processing systems w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” DeEtte Gray, president of the intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems‘ U.S. Arm, has said that the cyber industry must invest in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and cyber education in an effort to scale the demand for cyber professionals, ExecutiveBiz reported Thu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) enterprise mobility management platform has received an authority-to-operate from the U.S. Census Bureau under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to allow its deployment in government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday...
