The GovCon Index hit negative twice during the late morning and noon hours of trade Monday but closed up 0.153 points to 77.359 on gains by healthcare stocks to help offset declines from energy and utility shares on lower oil prices. McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) ended Monday as the GovCon Index’s largest net gainer at $3.36 while ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2016 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has partnered with NEC Corporation of America to develop a facial recognition and comparison technology that will be deployed at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The team integrated NEC’s NeoFace Match software with the overall identity v...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2016 ” Globecomm Systems will supply its Summit and Explorer satellite communications terminals to government agencies under awards worth $7 million combined, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will also continue to offer its satcom product and service portfolio vi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) potential $6 million contracts to conduct feasibility studies on the production readiness of future GPS III satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Space and Missile Systems Center ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Federal Trade Commission have received an award from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council for their identity theft recovery website, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday ACT-IAC gave the Impacter Dynamite A...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2016 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has been included in CivilianJobs.com‘s list of the 2016 “Most Valuable Employers” for Military for its veteran hiring and support programs, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. SAIC said Tuesday the recognition is based on a ...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.634-point increase to 7.206 amid buying activity in U.S. financial markets. The GCI also posted a weekly gain of 0.845 points as earnings reports from contractors over the past week — including Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), Engility Holdings (NYS...
The GovCon Index rode the wave of buying activity in U.S. financial markets Friday and closed up 0.634 points to 7.206, which put the GCI at a weekly gain of 0.845 points to start May after a series of earnings reports from contractors that exceeded analyst expectations. Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: ...
May 2 – May 6 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The first full week of May represented another checkpoint for investors to gauge the financial performance of the U.S.™ largest government contractors and get an idea of what the domestic and global GovCon...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 6, 2016 ” NASA astronauts visited Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) St. Louis facility in Missouri to train on launch, flight and return operations for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft using cloud-based, touchscreen simulators, Executive Gov reported Thursday. The space agency said April 27 two commercial crew astr...
