Parsons has won a five-year, $63.2 million contract with options to support the Missile Defense Agency‘s warfighter strategic integration directorate in the deployment and integration of missile defense capabilities into the military services. The Defense Department said Thursday Parsons will provide planning, operations, life-cycle and p...
The GovCon Index had its three-day streak of gains halted Thursday with a slight decline of 0.302 points to 74.032 that ends the first quarter of 2016 in the negative as many GCI contractors prepare to detail their January-March financial results. From Dec. 31, the Index has fallen 2.242 percent on volatility in GCI sto...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” Grant Thornton has hired Dianne Guensberg, formerly assistant director of the financial management and assurance team at the Government Accountability Office, as managing director of its public sector assurance practice, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday Gu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” Louis Berger‘s joint venture with an affiliate company of MWH Global in Turkey will help modernize the country’s water resources and water treatment system under a $4.2 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The joint venture will assess the drinking water quality in Turkey and recomme...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received an order for 245 Stinger air-to-air missiles and launchers for India as part of a potential $3.1 billion foreign military sale agreement between the U.S. and Indian governments, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday the FMS deal would also include a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” NASA will build new ground infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center to support the processing of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Orion spacecraft and Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Space Launch System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The space agency said Wednesday its plan is the result of an as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” David Keffer, chief financial officer of CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), has indicated that contract recompetes and extensions are part of the company’s growth strategy as it moves forward in its first year of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. “[A] lesson I have lear...
Craig Reed, a three-decade GovCon veteran and former senior vice president from Engility (NYSE: EGL), has joined Vienna, Virginia-based information technology government services contractor NT Concepts as president and chief operating officer. NT Concepts said Thursday Reed will oversee operations, growth strategies and business deve...
TYSONS CORNER, VA., March 31, 2016 – The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic “ has finalized its panel for the Third Annual Intel Summit. The Summit™s keynote speakers are Rick Ledgett (NSA) and Nicholas Rasmussen (ODNI) and the panelists are Jason Matheny (IARPA/ODNI), Doug Wolfe (CIA) and Ardisson...
MBDA and the Qatar government have signed a memorandum of understanding toward a potential $725 million contract for the arms manufacturer to supply a coastal defense system to the Qatar Emiri naval force. Qatar will use the missile system to monitor coastal traffic and block enemy ships from the country™s territorial waters...
