Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported second quarter earnings of $1.30 per share to exceed Wall Street’s expectations by 1 cent as revenue fell $20 million short of the consensus analyst outlook. The Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based aviation technology maker said o...
Karen Forgy Hicks, formerly vice president and chief administration officer at Secure Mission Solutions, has been hired as executive vice president of operations at Siteworx. Hicks will be responsible for the firm’s daily operations, internal processes and team performance to drive customer service, Siteworx said Tuesday. Ken Quaglio, S...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded AT&T (NYSE: T) a potential five-year, $74.6 million contract to provide Northstar long-haul telecommunications services and related transmission circuits in support of DISA’s ultra-high frequency/line-of-sight communications platform. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract awarded by t...
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...
