The U.S. Army has awarded nine companies spots on a $248.6 million multiple-award task order contract to provide technology products and services to the Defense Department. The companies are scheduled to complete the tasks by June 22, 2021, at various locations that depend on each task order award, DoD said Thursday. Army Contracting Command is...
Seattle, Washington-based space technology and services provider Spaceflight Industries has bought Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company OpenWhere for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to accelerate the deployment of Spaceflight’s BlackSky satellite imaging platform. Spaceflight said Tuesday it aims ...
The GovCon Index lifted Thursday on U.S. investor speculation that Britain would vote in its referendum to remain in the European Union but felt some downward pressure from a guidance miss by CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and a subsequent downgrade on the stock. Executive Mosaic‘s GovCon Index of 30 publicly traded contractors...
Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) CEO Mike Lawrie said Thursday he will step down from his roles as chairman and a member of the board of directors at the government technology services spinoff CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) August 9. Lawrie announced his departure from the CSRA board approximately one month after CSC announced its intent to me...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” CGI (NYSE: GIB) will continue to provide visa processing support in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia for the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs under a $32 million task order award, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday the recompete covers processing o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a $40 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for support on the Defense Department‘s Wide Area Workflow and Electronic Document Access systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday DoD uses the WAWF and ED...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Mitre has been ranked No. 8 in The Washington Post’s “Top Workplaces” list for 2016 based on a survey conducted by WorkplaceDynamics on employee happiness, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday its ranking is under the category for large Washington-based co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2016 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has entered into an Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) partner program that provides the former an AWS Government Competency designation for its delivery of cloud platforms to government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Partner companies that demonstrate technical prof...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) issued earnings and revenue guidance below analyst expectations Wednesday for the government services contractor’s next fiscal year that starts July 1 on higher indirect costs and selling expenses in conjunction with a forecasted seasonal sales decline in the summer. An additional seven month...
The Department of Homeland Security has begun to solicit industry information on biometric systems designed to screen foreign visitors exiting the U.S. under a potential $7.2 billion program, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes DHS said in a notice that it plans to field biometric exit systems at airports in 2018 and expand the ...
