The Defense Contract Management Agency is working on ways to help small businesses increase their participation in the government contracting market and gain an education on the sector prior to their entry, DCMA’s director told the Potomac Officers Club Thursday. Air Force Lt. Gen. Wendy Masiello told a GovCon and government executive audience...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 28, 2016 ” AECOM (NYSE: ACM) will design and build the test track for Hyperloop prototypes developed as part of a SpaceX-hosted student competition on the development of the concept transport system, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. AECOM said Tuesday it will begin work to construct the Hyperloop test track ...
The year 2015 for government contractors was one that featured major landscape shifts in its composition unlike any other since the post-Cold War drawdown in the 1990s that resulted in consolidation among the defense market’s largest companies. GovCon’s services arena took its turn to drive the consolidation narrative in 2016 as many of ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded positions on a potential four-year, $809 million contract to eight companies to provide process management and data support services for the Naval Supply Systems Command Business Systems Center. The service branch awarded the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 26, 2016 ” Sotera Defense Solutions will provide research and development support for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s counter-insurgency operations program under an $11.4 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract from the U.S. Army...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) has agreed to buy Christie Digital Systems™ Matrix series of projectors for an undisclosed sum in an effort to complement its training projectors and simulation offerings to aviation and military clients. The deal covers Christie™s Matrix SIM and Matrix StIM projectors and other software tools and is expec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has offered tools that work to support analysis of Next Generation Weather Radar data on the Amazon Simple Storage Service cloud platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Jan. 6 WeatherPipe and the Amazon Simple Notification Service aim t...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported earnings per share of $1.21 for the first quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year to exceed Wall Street analyst expectations by 21 cents. Profit for the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics contractor came in at $135 mil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 21, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will continue to provide development and lifecycle support to the U.S. Air Force‘s Air Space and Cyberspace Constructive Environment “ Information Operations Suite under a $25 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday t...
Tiffanny Gates, formerly vice president of cyber strategies at Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) Blackbird Technologies subsidiary, has joined Novetta as president of the company’s federal division. Gates will be responsible for the company’s projects for the U.S. government and for the division’s strategy, business development and...
