September 12 – September 16 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson For those of us who follow financial markets and in particular U.S. GovCon stocks, let’s take a deep breath during this slightly slower Friday session and take a brief look at the wi...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has reissued its call for bids on a potential 10-year, $17.5 billion contract vehicle for products and services to support the Defense Department‘s information technology modernization efforts. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday interested vendors can submit new propos...
Subsidiaries of Health Net, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Anthem (NYSE: ANTM) have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office to dispute the Defense Health Agency™s Tricare services contract awards, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Health Net and Humana (NYSE: HUM) won separate contracts in July to provide managed car...
Linda Miller, formerly assistant director of forensic audits and investigative service at the Government Accountability Office, has been named a director at Grant Thornton‘s public sector fraud risk assessment practice. She will work with government clients that aim to assess the risk of fraud in their organizations&nb...
Congress could review the U.S. Air Force‘s and the Defense Department‘s independent cost estimates for the Long Range Strike Bomber program after the legislative branch’s research arm found Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) winning bid to be “substantially below” those projections,  Bloomberg reported Thursd...
The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the names of seven companies that will partner with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to help build a fleet of B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber planes for the military service, Defense News reported Monday. Lara Seligman writes Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in a news briefing at the ...
The team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will not pursue a legal challenge in federal claims court of the U.S. Air Force™s award of the Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg reported Friday. Julie Johnsson writes the decision comes a week after the Government Accoun...
Feb. 16 – Feb. 19 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Over the past two weeks here, we have taken different looks at Executive Mosaic’s 2016 Wash100 list of the government contracting arena’s most influential voices and pulled out some simi...
The GovCon Index barely held positive territory in a narrow final hour of trade Thursday to record a nominal gain of 0.041 points to 71.389 Thursday and remain in a correction for the seventh consecutive day, or 10 percent down from its most recent high on Dec. 1. ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) rose 1.48 percent after...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has withdrawn a lawsuit it filed in federal court to challenge the U.S. Army‘s selection of Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) for the $6.75 billion Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes that John Kent, a Lockheed spokesman, told R...
