Load King and Schutt Industries have been awarded a potential seven-year, $187.9 million shared contract to manufacture 11 low-rate initial production M870A4 semitrailers for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract also covers subsequent full-rate production of up to 1, 350 traile...
Cummings Aerospace, Dynetics and Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. have received separate contracts worth up to $9.9 million each to provide hardware, software and design services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday contractors will support the military branch’s Command, Control, Communications...
Carmen Krueger, senior vice president of cloud operations at SAP (NYSE: SAP) National Security Services, has said federal agencies should consider agility as one of the key factors when it comes to the development of a strategy for cloud deployment. Krueger wrote that there are three areas in which a cloud platform can help agencies become...
August 22 – August 26 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson An investment analyst at the U.S.’ biggest and world’s fifth largest bank endorsed the defense sector this week in a note to investors with a forecast that views continued ̶...
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will provide Atlas V 541 launch services to NASA for a follow-up rover mission to Mars. NASA said Friday it estimates that the Mars 2020 launch will cost $243 million, including spacecraft and planetary protection processing, rocket...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential one-year, $126.3 million contract modification to provide engineering and system support services for the U.S. Navy™s Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems program. The cost-plus-incentive-fee modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers development, design...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” Battelle will work with a subsidiary of Astrotech to build the final prototype of a chemical detection platform under the third phase of the Defense Department‘s Next Generation Chemical Detector multi-sample identifier technology maturation and risk reduction program, ExecutiveBiz re...
Mary Ann Hopkins, formerly Parsons federal group president, will join global design and consultancy firm Arcadis to lead that company’s business in North America and Latin America as well as the global water and environment lines. Arcadis said Thursday Hopkins will assume her new role on Sept. 26 and the company’s&nbs...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded lower Wednesday with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) the worst net performer at more than double the decline of second-lowest Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) as losses in healthcare shares dragged U.S. stocks into negative territory. General Dynamics was the only GovCon Index-S&P 500 compan...
BAE Systems PLC Chief Operating Officer Charles Woodburn will start a series of meetings with clients and suppliers sometime in October or November as part of preparations to succeed Ian King as CEO of the British defense contractor, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Benjamin Katz and David Hellier report that Woo...
