Posts from GovConWire for 09/16/2015

Parsons Lands Construction Project Management Contract with GSA; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

Parsons has been selected to manage the construction and upgrade of government facilities nationwide and in other locations under a blanket purchase agreement with the General Services Administration. Parsons will perform quality assurance, engineering, facility condition assessments and technical support for the facilities of the U…

Alan Rizek Joins ThreatTrack Security as CFO; John Lyons Comments

Alan Rizek, a financial management professional and formerly chief financial officer of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) IT services consulting subsidiary MicroLink, has joined ThreatTrack Security as CFO…

NASA Picks ASRC-ATA JV for Potential $505M Mechanical Engineering Contract

A joint venture of ASRC Federal‘s space and defense business and Applied Technology Associates will provide mechanical engineering and associated services to NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center under a potential five-year, $505 million contract…

Phacil to Provide IT Support for State Dept Bureau of Consular Affairs

Phacil has received a $30 million task order to support the service operations of the Office of Consular Systems and Technology within the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs. The company said it will provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 support for IT systems, Web applications, imaging and archiving applications and client-server applications over a five-year period…

Defense News: Boeing Previews Concept Design for T-X Aircraft Offering

Boeing has offered an invite-only trailer of its conceptual design for a T-X military trainer platform during a recent Air Force Association event, Defense News reported Tuesday. Aaron Mehta writes Boeing and Saab designed the platform as their joint offering for the U…

September 15 Market Close: GovCon Index, US Stocks Jump 1% on Day Before Fed Meeting

The GovCon Index jumped 1.186 percent to 73.185 Tuesday in the last trading session before the Federal Reserve’s meeting set to take place Wednesday through Thursday. All three major U.S. stock indices rose at least 1 percent each as U…