Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index stumbled to negative late afternoon Thursday on a plunge in McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) with other health stock declines despite an upgrade to L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) by JPMorgan and gains by other defense primes and government services providers. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered lagger...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide mobile devices as well as data and voice services to the Labor Department under a five-year contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will supply smartphones and give tethering support and Enhanced Push-to-Talk services ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” A Unisys (NYSE: UIS) study postulates that law enforcement will lead the integration of biometrics tools such as voice identification into wearable technology such as smart watches and lapel badges, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday a majority of the polled biometric...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” A joint venture of Parsons and CH2M will provide services for the repair of underground water infrastructure in Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas under a five-year contract from the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CH2M said Wednesday&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) plans to move the manufacturing base for the company’s F-16 aircraft to India in efforts to secure a potential order of more than 150 fighter jets under a military modernization program by the Indian government, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Bloomberg reporte...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” Battelle will work with a subsidiary of Astrotech to build the final prototype of a chemical detection platform under the third phase of the Defense Department‘s Next Generation Chemical Detector multi-sample identifier technology maturation and risk reduction program, ExecutiveBiz re...
Mary Ann Hopkins, formerly Parsons federal group president, will join global design and consultancy firm Arcadis to lead that company’s business in North America and Latin America as well as the global water and environment lines. Arcadis said Thursday Hopkins will assume her new role on Sept. 26 and the company’s&nbs...
BAE Systems and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have each received contracts worth nearly $228.3 million combined from Australia™s defense ministry for services in support of military projects there. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne announced the contract extensions for the two companies during a trip to Australia’s New South Wales s...
DRS Technologies has received a potential $400 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a new Joint Assault Bridge system. DRS™ sustainment systems business unit will oversee the production of the hydraulic bridge launcher and M1A1 chassis assembly as well as system integration work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity c...
All Points Logistics has secured a potential five-year, $165 million contract from NASA to provide a range of information technology support services to the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. NASA said Thursday the MSFC Information Technology Services II contract covers I...
