The GovCon Index rebounded on oil price recoveries and investor confidence Friday at a gain of 0.547 points to 69.294 but remain below the 70-point barrier for a second consecutive close. The Index posted a loss of 2 percent for the week and is down 10.62 percent from the start of the year. CSRA‘s (NYSE:...
Feb. 8 – Feb. 12 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Many reasons have been put forth as to why global financial markets continue to be in turmoil but this week showed there may be no end in sight to this period of volatility that has carried...
A team comprising Dynetics and Radiance Technologies team has been selected to build the core stage Pathfinder vehicle for NASA™s Space Launch System under a delivery order awarded through a potential five-year, $350 million contract vehicle. Team technical lead Dynetics said Thursday the companies will work to fabricate, assemble and transport...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will provide support to U.S. Navy™s submarine and surface ship acoustical tests under a $47 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will produce analysis and reports of acoustics trials data through the contract’s 12-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 — Whitney, Bradley & Brown has appointed Jeffrey Cohen, a 26-year U.S. Air Force veteran, as the company’s vice president of capture and proposals, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. WBB said Tuesday Cohen has worked on proposal management and business development for more than three de...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) endorse information governance strategy to companies in an effort to help deter risks in big data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “We’re working to accelerate compliance and IG with legacy data clean-up and reducing redundant, obso...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” A rocket built by the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) carried a national security payload to space as part of the NROL-45 mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. United Launch Alliance said Wednesday an Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) RS-68A engi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2016 ” Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal civilian business group, believes that DevOps can drive efficiency and agility in federal information technology as agencies work toward IT modernization, ExecutiveGov reported Thursday. “As federal agencies modernize their appli...
Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) said Friday it will continue work on the potential $6.75 billion contract awarded in August 2015 to build the Humvee ground vehicle replacement for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps after a federal claims court denied Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) request for a preliminary injunction. Lockheed shifted its challenge of Os...
ManTech International Corp. (Nasdaq: MANT) has been awarded a potential five-year, $71 million task order to provide advisory, systems engineering and technical services to the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. The task order contains a 12-month base period of performance and four 12-month options, ManTech said Friday. Daniel Keefe, pres...
