On October 29th at 11 am on WJLA; and 6PM on News Channel 8 Jim McCarthy the host of The Bridge was joined by Dan Mindus, Managing Partner, NextGen Venture Partners and Seth Demsey, Co-Founder, 300 Qubits – for a discussion about the advance of technology, and the hopes and concerns accompanying it. Later in the show,...
Weekly Roundup October 23 – October 27 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson With October coming to a close, let’s take a look at the most significant M&A activity that took place over the course of this month. Notable M&A activity includes: S...
AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) URS Federal Services subsidiary has wrapped up the transition phase for a potential 16-year, $3.6 billion contract that covers range support services to the U.S. Air Force. URS Federal Services completed the transition after the service branch addressed a protest that delayed commencement of contract wor...
The General Services Administration has awarded 70 companies spots on a 10-year, $5 billion governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support services. GSA said in a FedBizOpps award notice posted Thursday 187 bids were submitted for the Veterans Technology Services 2 contract vehicle through a request for proposals issued in Ap...
Matt Donovan, Air Force undersecretary, has said the service™s $2 billion funding request for the B-21 bomber aircraft program for fiscal year 2018 would be spent on software development and staffing efforts at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg Technology reported Wednesday. The military branch will also allocate part of the requested fun...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has decided to drop the company™s pursuit of the U.S. Navy™s carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling tanker program, Defense News reported Wednesday. The contractor™s decision came two weeks after the service issued the final request for proposals for the MQ-25A Stingray program. œWinning is...
NASA has awarded 24 contracts under a potential eight-year, $3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity procurement vehicle for general construction services. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded four spots on the unrestricted portion of the Multiple Award Construction Contract Two and another 20 positions for MACC-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 24, 2017 ” Intel‘s (Nasdaq: INTC) investment arm has placed more than $60 million in funds to support 15 startups as they work to develop cybersecurity, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Thursday the startups fr...
Carol Lowe, senior vice president and chief financial officer at packaging company Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) over the past five years, will formally join FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) on Nov. 27 as executive VP and CFO. FLIR said Monday Lowe will manage the company’s global finance department and financial planning, control...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 23, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has moved to explore new autonomous technologies for aerial and ground vehicles through its investment in Carnegie Mellon University spinoff Near Earth Autonomy, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The investment by Boeing’s HorizonX ventures arm seeks to advance the development of autonomous...
