Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has received a $387.2 million contract modification to produce additional Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army. Sikorsky will deliver 35 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Army to exercise an option in a previously awarded contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. T...
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has secured a potential $250 million contract to provide aerospace testing and facilities operations and maintenance services at NASA‘s Ames Research Center. The company said Tuesday the ATOM-4 contract also requires information technology system administration and work on Ames̵...
The Defense Health Agency views the military’s transition to a new commercial electronic health record system as one path for the armed forces to design healthcare in a way more centered around a model based on interoperability and centered around patients, DHA’s director told the Potomac Officers Club Tuesday. U.S. N...
Chantilly, Virginia-based business management consultant firm Eagle Ray has named Susan Case as the company’s new vice president for Intelligence Community business development. Case joined the company in February from American Systems, where she was VP of the national security unit, and works to develop new business opportunities an...
The GovCon Index held lower throughout the trading session Tuesday and closed at a decline of 1.071 percent to 72.599 on earnings misses from two GCI stocks and investor reaction to oil price declines and new trade data out of China. ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) dropped 8.37 percent a day after the consulting services company post...
Japan-based telecommunications conglomerate Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NYSE: NTT) is planning to make a $3.52 billion offer to acquire a Dell business unit that provides information technology services to government, education and healthcare agencies, Nikkei reported Tuesday. The report said NTT looks to purchase...
Barbie Bigelow, a former senior vice president and chief information officer at Engility™s (NYSE: EGL) TASC subsidiary, will join Pasadena, Calif.-based construction services contractor Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) as SVP and CIO. Bigelow will directly report to Chief Financial Officer Kevin Berryman and start in the role on&n...
Massachusetts-based hyperconvergence software startup SimpliVity has hired former Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) sales executives Gary DePreta and Geoff Fancher to join the former company’s sales team, CRN reported Monday. Kevin McLaughlin writes DePreta, formerly director of the national security agencies business at Cisco, will serve as head of S...
ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported 2015 and fourth quarter earnings and revenue below Wall Street’s forecasts on a strong U.S. dollar that impacted commercial and international government sales. The Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting servic...
A Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $400 million contract to continue to provide test, evaluation and support services at NASA™s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Test Evaluation and Support Team 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to Jacobs Techno...
