FCi Federal has appointed seven new executives to its management team in an effort to boost its expansion in the government services sector. Jeffrey Leong, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former chief financial officer at a business unit of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), will serve as the company™s CFO, FCi Federal said Tuesday. Claude...
Three companies have been awarded spots on a potential five-year, $2.6 billion contract to perform maintenance, repair and modernization work on U.S. Navy surface combatant and amphibious warfare vessels. BAE Systems, General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary and Marine Hydraulics International will help maintain six c...
The GovCon Index carried its positive momentum from Friday’s rally with a gain of 1.531 percent to 70.355 Tuesday — its first close above 70 in two days — on a bounce in confidence from investors that some equities may have been oversold. Gains among consumer, industrial and financial shares helped drive the S&P 500...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to offer Microsoft Software & Systems Academy courses at five U.S. Army bases to help active-duty and former soldiers transition to civilian careers in IT, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Chris Cortez, vice president of military affairs at Microsoft, wrote i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will offer security services for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, based on geospatial data and satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the offering includes the Basemap+Daily imagery subscription service...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) will update and integrate the U.S. Air Force‘s KC-135 aircrew training platforms to the service branch™s Distributed Training Center Network, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contract covers updates to the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Saudi Arabia’s proposed $154.9 million purchase of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) upgraded MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems has received approval from the U.S. government, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the potential foreign mili...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) will provide its API Management platform to the U.K. meteorological office to support cloud- and mobile-based weather data services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the technology works to bolster data privacy and customer experience and facili...
Philadelphia Gear has won a potential $1.04 billion contract to engineer the main reduction gears for the U.S. Navy™s Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The company will perform work in California, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania and other locations through February 2017, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Naval Sea Syst...
Charles Woodburn, a 20-year oil and gas industry veteran and former CEO of oilfield services company Expro, has joined BAE Systems as chief operating officer. He will report directly to CEO Ian King and will also join BAE’s board as an executive director in the second quarter of 2016, the company said Monday. Woodburn has l...
