TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide cloud services to facilitate the migration of the Government Publishing Office‘s Integrated Library System Web portals to the cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. GPO said Thursday AWS’ cloud infrastructure will host GPO’s public-fac...
Jacksonville, Florida-based engineering and infrastructure services company Haskell has agreed to purchase Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) heavy construction business and some design assets of the latter’s engineering business for an undisclosed sum. Haskell said Wednesday the transaction is scheduled to clos...
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, a former army surgeon general and head of the branch’s medical command, will join Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) U.S. government services subsidiary on April 6 as leader of the defense health practice. Accenture Federal Services said Wednesday she will oversee the pr...
Bechtel has appointed Barbara Rusinko, a three-decade engineering veteran and a former manager at Bechtel, to the role of president for the Reston, Virginia-based infrastructure management services contractor’s U.S. government business and to the rank of executive vice president. The company said Tuesday Rusinko will oversee the Bech...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $897 million contract modification to build and deliver to the U.S. Army a total of 39 CH-47F Chinook helicopters under production lot 14. The multiyear contract covers 12 new-build Chinooks and 27 renew helicopters, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Boeing-built CH-47F Chinook is a vertical-lift heli...
Colorado Springs, Colorado-based engineering consultant firm Aleut O&M Services has landed a $395 million contract to provide launch operations and infrastructure support to the U.S. Air Force. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for Aleut O&M to provide facility and system operations, maintenance and enginee...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $106 million contract modification to manufacture additional C-130J aircraft for the U.S. Air Force for fiscal year 2017. The company will build two C-130J-30, three HC-130J, five MC-130J and one KC-130J under the multiyear production contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed will pr...
Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has issued earnings and revenue guidance for 2016 with the midpoint outlooks respectively below and level the consensus Wall Street forecast on continued declines in sales for programs based in Afghanistan. The Colorado Springs-based informat...
User behavior analytics provider Gurucul has appointed Beau Hutto as vice president for federal sales to help drive the company’s government market reach. Hutto joined Gurucul from Blue Coat Systems where he held a similar role and assisted in the security company’s year-on-year revenue and workforce growth, Gurucul said Tuesda...
The GovCon Index traded in negative territory throughout the session Tuesday and closed at a decline of 0.355 points to 73.388 as U.S. stocks also held marginally downward ahead of the scheduled Wednesday afternoon statement from Federal Reserve policymakers when their two-day meeting concludes. Index stock Vectrus (NYSE: VEC), a...
