Gary Slack, former president and chief operating officer of QinetiQ North America, has been appointed president and chief executive at Tysons, Virginia-based government services contractor XLA. The more than 30-year GovCon veteran will be responsible for implementing the company’s growth strategies and succeeds founder and former CEO Lloy...
The State Department has cleared Iraq’s request to purchase major defense equipment such as Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Hellfire missiles and Captive Air Training Missiles under a potential $800 million foreign military sale contract. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the order includes 5, 000 AG...
Ten small businesses have won spots on a potential five-year, $846 million contract to support business processing systems across the U.S. Army organization. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract will run through Jan. 6, 2021, and covers enterprise resource planning services for the Army’s Enterprise System Inte...
Seaward Marine Services will provide support services for the U.S. Navy™s office of the director of ocean engineering, supervisor of salvage and diving under a potential one-year, $257.9 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract covers underwater hull cleaning and related work on the serv...
A Jacobs Engineering Group subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $355 million contract to operate and maintain NASA‘s ground-based aerospace facilities at Ames Research Center. Jacobs Technology will provide testing and support services to the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels and the Arc Jet Complex under the indefinite-delivery/in...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has secured a potential eight-year, $485 million contract to continue to provide operational support services for NASA™s Enterprise Applications Competency Center. The follow-on, cost-plus-performance-fee contract was awarded through the Enterprise Applications Service Technologies prog...
The GovCon Index continued to mirror deep losses in U.S. and global financial markets Thursday with a decline of 2.293 percent to 74.525 as investor fears over China’s economy and falling oil prices grew. Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) were the Index’s only two gainers Thursday a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 7, 2016 ” A Fluor (NYSE: FLR) joint venture will design and build the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway around the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona under a contract awarded by the state’s transportation department, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Fluor said Tuesday the Connect 202 Partners JV w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 7, 2016 ” Battelle and its partners Schlumberger, Solexperts and the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center have been chosen by the Energy Department to drill a borehole in North Dakota to test its feasibility for disposal of high-level radioactive waste and development o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 7, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Deloitte, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), General Electric, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have tied up in support of AT&T’s strategy to help local governments create more connected communities, ExecutiveBiz reported We...
