Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $1.01 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy design, build, integrate and demonstrate new jammer model pods. The company will also produce Next Generation Jammer aero-mechanical test pods for use in aircraft flight verification, develop equipment for system integration laboratories and provide m...
The U.S. Army has awarded a potential $675 million contract modification to eight companies to continue to provide information technology systems in support of the service branch™s enterprise software. The Army Contracting Command will obligate funds and work location upon award of each task order and expects contract work to finish Oct. 23, 20...
Redwood City, California-based financial intelligence analysis firm OpenGov has bought New York-based open data management company Ontodia for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand offerings for the public sector. Zachary Bookman, OpenGov co-founder and CEO, said Wednesday the companies aim to help transform “how governments an...
The GovCon Index rode across-the-board positive activity in U.S. markets Wednesday with a gain of 1.224 percent to 75.399, which represents the GCI’s first close above 75 points this year so far under its current 30-company composition. First-quarter earnings from JPMorgan that topped analyst estimates drove the S&P 500 composite...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” Doug Howard has joined EMC‘s (NYSE: EMC) security division as the new vice president of global services, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday Howard brings sales, service and executive management expertise to RSA as it works to boost its position in the security indu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will provide systems engineering, technical assessment and subject matter support for the Defense Department‘s intelligence operations under a $33 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the task order was awarded under t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” The Leidos-built (NYSE: LDOS) Sea Hunter autonomous ship demonstrator has been christened at a dockside ceremony Thursday in Portland, Oregon, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the ship will be used for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency™s Anti-Submari...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” A Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) joint venture will work with Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems to launch a competition that will award free payload rides aboard the Atlas V rocket for university science, technology, engineering and math projects, ExecutiveBiz reported Tu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2016 ” General Atomics‘ Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery technology has been certified by Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd after it completed tests aboard an undersea vehicle of the U.S. Special Operations Command, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the DNV G...
Peter Kane, formerly a vice president at McLean, Virginia-based technology services contractor Altamira Technologies, has been appointed to the role of chief operating office and will handle all of the company’s contract and program-related functions. Altamira said Wednesday Kane holds at least three decades of experience in pro...
