Posts from GovConDaily for 01/12/2015

January 12 Market Close: GovCon Index Falls, Investors Prep for Earnings Season

The GovCon Index started the week with a loss of 0.512 points — or 0.732 percent — to close at 70.483 on Monday. Investors showed concern over continued declines in oil prices and are preparing to watch the start of quarterly earnings reports, CNBC reports…

Chico Moline: Harris-nLogic Team to Support Defense Commissary Agency’s Network Infrastructure

A Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS)-nLogic team has won a contract of undisclosed value to support the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency‘s domestic and oversees network operations. The companies will provide network communications services across seven distribution centers and 245 commissaries that deliver inexpensive groceries to U…

Gulu Gambhir to Speak at Raymond James Financial’s 14th Annual Summit

Gulu Gambhir, a senior vice president and chief technology officer of Leidos, will represent the company at the Raymond James Government Solutions & Technology Summit on Tuesday, Leidos said Monday…

James Miller Joins Johns Hopkins APL as Senior Fellow

James Miller, formerly defense undersecretary for policy, has joined Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory as a senior fellow. Miller brings to the lab a background in nuclear deterrence, missile defense, space policy and cyber warfare, APL said Friday…

Research and Markets: Cloud to Drive Defense Logistics Information Systems Market Through 2019

A new Research and Markets report forecasts the defense logistics information systems market in the U.S. to grow at an annual compound rate of 3.56 percent by 2019. The market will see growth in the adoption of cloud computing and service-oriented architecture-based services between 2014 and 2019, Research and Markets said Monday…

GSA’s Jim Ghiloni Offers Advice on OASIS Task Order Contracting

Jim Ghiloni, a program director at the U.S. General Services Administration, says the agency’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services program will follow a task order contracting method instead of a blanket purchase agreement construct…