Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has been awarded a three-year, $67 million contract to design and build electric propulsion technology for use in NASA‘s deep-space exploration missions. The company will help develop a propulsion system that will comprise a thruster, a power processing unit, an electrical harness and a ...
The U.S. Army has awarded four companies positions on a potential five-year, $122.5 million contract to help the National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence demonstrate and transition technology platforms for the Defense Department. The program is scheduled to run through Oct. 19, 2021, and the Army Contracting Command will determ...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 19, 2016 — David Ramirez, FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE) president of the global government business, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his contributions in global sales strategy. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and p...
The GovCon Index held onto a positive close for the third consecutive session Tuesday at 0.148 points to 76.362 after a descent from a strong open to negative territory in early afternoon trade before a reversal into green. Losses by technology shares on disappointing earnings reporters weighed on U.S. markets but were offset by ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2016 ” Parsons and the National Security Agency have partnered on a cybersecurity competition for students of military institutions, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said April 12 the Cyber Defense Exercise was held at its cyber center in Maryland, with the winners announced...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will provide enterprise IT network support, systems engineering, software engineering and IT infrastructure maintenance services to the Department of Veterans Affairs under a $22.3 billion contract vehicle awarded in March, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The com...
Jonathan Greenert, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and formerly its top uniformed officer, has joined the board of directors at BAE Systems Inc. – the British contractor’s U.S. subsidiary — and will serve for a term of up to three years. Board Chairman Michael Chertoff said Tuesday the subsidiary elected Greenert to...
John Johns, a former vice president from Six3 Systems and business development executive at other GovCon companies, has joined Hanover, Md.-based cyber and geospatial services company KEYW Corp. (Nasdaq: KEYW) as vice president of BD and account executive for national agencies. KEYW said Tuesday it appointed the 25-year...
The GovCon Index bounced back from its early morning decline at the open to close at a gain of 0.522 points to 76.214 as both stock and commodities markets seemed to move past news that major oil suppliers did not agree on a production freeze at their Doha meeting over the weekend. The Index opened nearly one-quarter...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will sponsor a College for Business and Entrepreneurship at King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Wednesday it has partnered with Babson Global, the Saudi Arabia Economic Offset Program office and KAEC to open ...
