The U.S. Army is looking at how contractors spend government-issued funds for research-and-development programs in order to better understand where industry focuses its R&D efforts, the branch’s lead acquisition executive said Wednesday. Katrina McFarland told an audience at a Potomac Officers Club-hosted event in Falls...
The GovCon Index ended its three-day gain streak Wednesday with a nominal loss of 0.008 points to 76.354 as a downgrade on Boeing‘s stock (NYSE: BA) and its subsequent decline offset gains from a first-quarter sales and earnings beat from Textron (NYSE: TXT). Providence, R.I.-based Textron climbed 4.89 percent&nbs...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Battelle™s Natick team will provide survival support and equipment systems for special operations forces to the U.S. Army under a $33 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the task order is part of the Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks contract ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said satellite communications resilience is centered on the diversity, distribution and protection of space assets, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Space News article published March 28 that...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has partnered with World Wide Technology to provide enterprise data storage services to the Defense Information Systems Agency under a $427 million contract awarded to WWT, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. WWT said April 13 the Enterprise Storage Services I...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Earl Matthews, vice president of U.S. public sector enterprise security solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said organizations should aim to develop a risk-aware culture to support cybersecurity efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GCN reported April 13 Matthews told hi...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported first quarter revenue that topped Wall Street’s expectations to snap a streak of eight straight quarters of sales below analyst outlooks. The Providence, R.I.-based defense and industrial conglomerate said first quarter rev...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” BAE Systems, Fincantieri or Navantia has the potential to produce new frigates for the Australian navy under a $27 billion program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Defense News reported Monday the Australian defense ministry will choose from the three companies to begin work on the frigates in 2020 i...
NASA has released a second request for proposals in search of more companies to help the agency research and develop deep-space habitation systems, advanced propulsion technologies and small satellites. The agency said Wednesday it seeks “evolvable” approaches to long-duration habitation by astronauts and aims to build full-s...
Greg Godbout, chief technology officer and U.S. digital services lead at the Environmental Protection Agency, will join cBrain™s international team effective May 1. Godbout will work to introduce updates to the F2 platform and help the Denmark-based software company expand into the U.S. market, cBrain said Tuesday. The cBrain F2 autom...
