General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $1.26 on the company’s common stock. The aerospace and defense company said Wednesday it will give the dividend on Aug. 5 to holders of the common stock as of July 1. Reston, Virginia-based General Dynamics posted flat revenue of $9.4 billion...
Tom Jackson, president of Sarcos Defense, a subsidiary of Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp., was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He talked about the division’s focus and the plans for the next year of business. Jackson also tackled the acquisition of RE2 and the expected results of that move. Other Q&a...
Vishal Deshpande, a two-decade federal information technology market veteran, has joined Unissant as chief data analytics officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of the company’s technical vision, roadmap and strategy related to data and advanced analytics and help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine ...
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has received European Commission clearance and other antitrust approvals required for the company’s proposed acquisition of Missouri-based health information technology maker Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN). Oracle agreed to acquire Cerner for approximately $28.3 billion through an all-cash tender offer in December and the Austin, Te...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Owl Cyber Defense Solutions positions on a potential five-year, $249.1 million contract to provide development, testing and implementation support for the Foreign Military Sales Cross Domain Solutions program. FMS CDS is an information assurance method that seeks to deliver the ...
James Christopher, a more than 25-year technology services veteran, has assumed the president role at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) 1901 Group subsidiary, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. He oversees three enterprise information technology operations centers, two of which are located in Virginia and the third in Idaho, and the maturation of InSight, a man...
C4 Planning Solutions, a Georgia-based managed information technology services provider, has won a potential $249 million contract to provide tactical systems support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The TSS-3 contract covers engineering services for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence platforms that U.S. forces have deployed acros...
Suzanne Mathew, chief financial officer of Yorktown Systems Group, has assumed additional responsibilities as president of the Huntsville, Alabama-based mission support and training services provider. She will bring to the role over 25 years of GovCon experience as Yorktown pursues growth initiatives, including a more than twofold increase in revenu...
Fairbanks Morse Defense has purchased California-based marine electrical hardware manufacturing company Research Tool & Die to further expand the FMD’s turnkey offerings in the naval defense market. FMD said Thursday it made the acquisition to elevate its portfolio that supports naval power and propulsion systems production, maintena...
Jack Azagury, a 26-year Accenture (NYSE: ACN) veteran and most recently the U.S. Northeast market unit lead, has been named group chief executive of the company’s strategy and consulting group. In his new position, Azagury will be responsible for managing the unit’s enterprise operations, business strategy, applied intelligence and inno...
