Ascolta, a subsidiary of ViON, has appointed Brad Cox as chief data scientist and Clint Green as chief technology officer. Cox will be responsible for the design and execution of detection tools intended for network intrusions in his role at the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics firm, Ascolta said Thursday. Prior to joining Ascolta, Cox worked ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract modification to manufacture two passive microwave instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System, increasing the total contract value to $390.5 million. The $177.7 million modification awarded by NASA on behalf ...
The GovCon Index continued on a steady upward trend to close at 74.289, up 0.408%. The Index rode the market up as WTI broke the $40/barrel mark and on positive economic news from the Federal Reserve agreeing to hold interest rate firm, at least for the time being. According to Bloomberg, stocks are finally in the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has been selected to help develop the high-impact baseline for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as part of a pilot initiative, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Separate company blog posts published Tuesday indicated that the pilot works to support Micros...
Thales Group has closed its acquisition of San Jose, California-based data protection technology vendor Vormetric after the French conglomerate obtained regulatory clearance for the estimated $424 million transaction. Patrice Caine, CEO of Thales, said in a statement issued Thursday the company will integrate Vormetric into its...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.32 billion contract to help maintain amphibious warfare and surface combatant ships that dock in San Diego. The Defense Department said Wednesday that BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) unit NASSCO and Continental Maritime of San Diego, a subsidia...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $573 million contract modification to produce additional Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The award exercises options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Raytheon will manufacture the missiles in Tucson, Arizona, through Feb. 28, 2019...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a potential three-year, $197.6 million contract modification to carry out computer program baseline development work on the U.S. Navy‘s Aegis combat systems. The contract also covers design, testing, systems engineering, delivery and integration work on technology insertion-relat...
NASA will move forward to contract negotiations for the potential $104 million second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research program for future deep space missions. The space agency has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 U.S. small businesses and research organizations out of 323 responses received for the SBIR program,...
The GovCon Index turned upward in the last two hours of trade Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it would baseline interest rates unchanged and closed at a gain of 0.599 points to 73.987. Index stock Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) led all gainers at 9.44 percent after the information technology and communications contractor poste...
