Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index declined Tuesday with major defense primes and large services companies the major contributors to its losses as U.S. stocks also tumbled on a stronger dollar and a muted global outlook from the International Monetary Fund. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers by a 2-to-1 ratio, McKesson Corp. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) and the General Services Administration have agreed on a renegotiated contract on the use of collected federal spending data, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. GSA’s Kevin Youel Page wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the new contract expands access to the&...
L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has acquired pilot and aircraft maintenance technician training company Aerosim for an undisclosed sum in a push to complement L-3’s airline crew training, resourcing and simulation offerings. New York City-based L-3 said Tuesday it will integrate Aerosim into the defense technology ...
Andy Dougherty, former deputy director of KEYW‘s (Nasdaq: KEYW) survey and exploration systems sector, has been named president of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-based Continental Mapping Consultants in a move that takes effect Oct. 10. Continental Mapping said Thursday the mapping industry veteran will succeed David Hart...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed flat Monday to start the year’s fourth quarter as a rebound by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) in conjunction with advances by other large- and mid-tier primes offset declines by KBR (NYSE: KBR) and McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). GovCon Index gainers slightly edged laggers and eight o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board has awarded a provisional authority-to-operate to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for its government-focused, cloud-based customer relations management software, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Microsoft said Thursday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has installed simulation equipment to support training for manned CST-100 Starliner spacecraft missions at NASA˜s Johnson Space Center in Texas, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company designed its Crew Part Task Trainers to help astronauts rehearse various mis...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has unveiled updates to the Sailfish analytics platform in support of operations such as vehicle safety, vaccine dissemination and anti-human trafficking, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the updated Sailfish will be available in a free trial vers...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has delivered the first GPS Operational Control System satellite receiver to Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) following electromagnetic interference tests, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Space News reported Thursday the satellite receiver is the first of 34 due for the ground sys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and its partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), DataDirect Networks, Mellanox Technologies and Brocade Communication Systems have updated the National Institutes of Health‘s Biowulf supercomputing infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported F...
