TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 23, 2016 ” The Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft is scheduled to launch Sept. 8 to begin its mission to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu, Executive Gov reported Monday. NASA said Thursday OSIRIS-REx will...
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $124.02 million sale of Mk-V Fast Patrol Boats and related equipment to Qatar under a foreign military sales agreement with United States Marine Inc. as the principal contractor. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday Qatar’s request also includes eight M...
The U.S. Army has awarded seven companies spots on a potential three-year, $240 million contract to provide environmental remediation services for various projects led by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps of Engineers received 14 bids for the Type 1 order-dependent contract via an online-based solicitation, &n...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recovered from a slightly negative open Monday and held positive against choppy activity in U.S. stock markets as speculation over the next interest rate hike continued to dominate investors’ attention. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers and unchanged stocks by a 2-to-1 ratio and eight of t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 22, 2016 ” Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell‘s federal business, has stated that the structure of legacy software for off-the-shelf government products poses the biggest challenge to the information technology modernization efforts of the government, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. Chere...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 22, 2016 ” Veteran Moving Forward‘s Laurence Grayer, Cerberus‘ Gregory Nixon and Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) Josh Petty have been selected by Trending 40 for the events program’s list of top corporate counsels in Washington, D.C., GovConExecutive reported Thursd...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 22, 2016 ” The U.S. Army has awarded a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) joint venture a potential $38.4 million contract to deliver radar electronic units for the service branch’s lot 7 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Longbow LLC is set to pe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 22, 2016 ”Parsons has secured two “bridge” contracts worth a combined $48 million from the Missile Defense Agency to deliver advisory and support services for the agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and Space and Directed Energy programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company will su...
Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said federal information technology leaders should prioritize security at the application level in order to protect networks from cyber threats. Wood wrote that there are three principles in application security that fede...
Mark Anderson, formerly executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), has been promoted to president at the Santa Clara, California-based firewall provider. Palo Alto Networks said Monday he will report directly to Chairman and CEO Mark McLaughlin and be responsible...
