TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have been designated cloud service providers under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s high baseline security level, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The companies met the high baseline requirements...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions at AT&T (NYSE: T), has been named a winner of the Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching” awards for 2016 for her work as a female leader, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Profiles in Diversity Journal said Tuesda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Davis Johnson, vice president for the U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said the federal market is learning from industry best practices and catching up with the private sector’s adoption of service provider and cloud strategies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He told ExecutiveB...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said government and industry collaboration in the space systems business segment will facilitate increased resiliency of operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Monday&...
Jeff Jacobson, president of Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) technology business, will transition into the role of CEO after the company announced plans in January to divide into two publicly traded firms. Jacobson will lead the document management and outsourcing company that generated approximately $11 billion in 2015 revenue and will retain t...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has acquired a $523 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to modernize six Patriot air and missile defense fire units for Kuwait. Services will be conducted in sites across Alabama, Massachusetts and California as well as in Norway, Italy, Greece, Canada and the U.K., the Defense Departme...
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...
