The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative has received a potential seven-year, $98 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to support the agency™s efforts to develop a vaccine against the disease. IAVI will work with NIH™s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to characterize and produce HIV envelope protein...
NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA), Sierra Nevada, Bigelow Aerospace and NanoRacks were chosen t...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential $52.5 million task order from the Defense Health Agency to assist the assistant defense secretary for health affairs in efforts to implement action plans resulting from the Defense Department‘s military health service review. DoD said Tuesday the company will pro...
Kuwait has signed a $1.1 billion deal with Airbus Group to acquire 30 Airbus-built H225M Caracal military transport helicopters, Defense News reported Tuesday. Pierre Tran writes Kuwait’s defense minister Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah signed the contract in the presence of his French counterpart Jean-Yv...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rebounded Tuesday with gainers outnumbering laggers by a roughly 4-to-1 ratio against a largely choppy day for U.S. stocks as the general financial markets continue to struggle for direction. Ten of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed in green with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) the best ne...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 9, 2016 ” The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) a $47 million bridge contract modification to continue sustainment and operation support for the U.S. Navy‘s Ship Maintenance and Logistics Information Systems program, ExecutiveBiz said Monday. The contract...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 9, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has hired a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) to take a senior position with the company, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Fortune reported Wednesday Adam Bosworth brings software development and management experience in areas such as the Internet of Things...
McLean, Virginia-based analytics firm PlanetRisk has purchased service-disabled, veteran-owned small business Analytic Strategies for an undisclosed sum in an effort to expand its suite of analytics platforms. Randy Wimmer, founder and CEO of Analytic Strategies, will sit on PlanetRisk™s board of directors and serve as a strategic adviser to Pl...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to purchase $1.15 billion in General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) Abrams battle tanks along with a suite of ground vehicle recovery systems from the U.S. government under a foreign military sales agreement between both countries. Twenty of the total 153 M1A2S Abrams tanks covered ...
AECOM (NYSE: ACM) reported third fiscal quarter earnings above the consensus analyst outlook Tuesday as revenue for the period fell year-over-year on continued softness in the oil and gas markets with exacerbated effects from the mid-year fire in Fort McMurray, Canada. Earnings for the quarter ended June 30 came in at 81 cents per share to...
