The GovCon Index felt the pressure from U.S. investor worries about a potential interest rate hike in June and closed at a decline of 0.520 points to 77.071. CAE (NYSE: CAE) was one of the GovCon Index’s lone bright spots with a gain of 2.65 percent after the Montreal-based aerospace and defense contractor posted full-year and f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will provide digital signal generation technology to the U.S. Air Force under separate contracts in support of the Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Monday Boeing rece...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” BAE Systems has tapped Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) to provide information technology services support for the former’s operations in the U.K. and Saudi Arabia under a $600 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CSC said Tuesday the IT outsourcing deal covers contact...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Alan Bloodgood, a senior vice president at Siemens‘ U.S. federal government subsidiary, believes the federal sector will see an uptick in focus on renewable energy, distributed energy systems and energy security, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Bloodgood, who oversees energy and infrastructure busines...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, was a featured speaker at the Channel Company‘s Women of the Channel West 2016 event in California, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. ViON said Monday Anthony co-hosted a session focused on the solutions provider and strategic service pro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has hosted the Boot Campaign’s Pushups for Charity challenge at the company’s flagship store in New York as part of National Military Appreciation Month, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the challenge aims to raise awareness on milita...
MBDA has been awarded an estimated $585 million contract to develop an air-to-surface precision strike missile for the U.K. military™s fleet of F-35 fighter jets. This work is intended to build on the previous assessment phase for the Selective Precision Effects at Range Capability 3 missile, MBDA said Wednesday. Britain’s ...
Jeff Henry has joined ViON as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and a member of the company’s executive leadership team. Henry, who served as SVP and general manager of the Americas sales and services division at Hitachi Data Systems, will oversee ViON’s strategic programs and help develop new processes for th...
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has received a contract modification worth $88 million from the U.S. Army for the delivery of eight additional UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Army Contracting Com...
Carahsoft Technology has won a potential $42 million contract to provide development, operational support and integration testing services for the U.S. Special Operations Command™s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone Metadata Catalog. USSOCOM received three offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity co...
