Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has been awarded a $69 million contract to produce artillery precision guidance kits for the U.S. military. Orbital ATK is scheduled to complete production work for PGK fuzes by 2019 under a second option of a previously awarded full-rate production contract, the company said Thursday. The projectiles are designed to help...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has appointed Richard Swardh, Jeff Harig and Steve Good as senior vice presidents for three different vertical market areas at the company’s Comtech EF Data subsidiary. Swardh, Harig and Good will respectively lead the unit’s mobile network operator, government syste...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) a five-year, $60 million contract to supply medical and dental equipment to all four military service branches. Johnson & Johnson’s healthcare systems sector will deliver the products to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Mari...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held lower Thursday against narrow movement by U.S. stocks as investors looked ahead to the July jobs report for release Friday before the opening bell. The GovCon Index declined 0.176 points to 82.300 and three of its 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed in positive with Boeing (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) will support the first phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research and development program under a $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. DARPA obligated $22.3 million from its fiscal 2015 and 2016 R&D funds at the time of th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” Vencore will oversee concept definition and strategic planning for an advanced data analysis project of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command under a $1.5 million subcontract from AUSGAR Technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The project’s goal is to hel...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” The Lockheed Martin-built F-35A has reached initial operational capability after completing system tests and meeting requirements set by the U.S. Air Force, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. The Air Force said Tuesday Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of the Air Combat Command, declared the F-35A ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) has formed a team within its security services business that will work to test and identify vulnerabilities in customer computer systems under the leadership of Charles Henderson, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday X-Force Red will consist of ethical hackers...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will provide information technology services to support the National Institutes of Health‘s National Human Genome Research Institute under a $17 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the contract covers support for high-performance computing ...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) cut its revenue forecast for the government health and human services contractor’s 2016 fiscal year ending September 30 on an expectation of continued weakening in the U.K.’s pound since Britain’s June 23 vote to leave the European Union. Reston, Virginia-based Maximus now expects sales in the $2.37 ...
