Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/01/2015

EM Editor Ross Wilkers Charts GovCon Index’s September Activity, Correction Zone Stay With Federal News Radio

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 3, 2015 — Ross Wilkers, newsroom editor at Executive Mosaic, spoke with Federal News Radio live Thursday morning for an in-depth discussion over September’s movements in the GovCon Index, Executive Mosaic’s composite stock index of 30 publicly-traded companies in the U…

Kevin Kelly: LGS Eyes ISR Portfolio Growth Through Axios Buy

LGS Innovations has bought signal processing and communications technology company Axios for an undisclosed amount in a move to complement LGS’ portfolio of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms…

Raytheon Lands Potential $462M Navy Contract for MK 15 Phalanx CIWS Upgrades

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will provide upgrades, conversions, system overhauls and hardware to the U.S. Navy for the MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System under a potential $461.7 million firm-fixed-price contract…

NASA Taps ASRC Federal Subsidiary for $274M Goddard IT Support Contract

An ASRC Federal subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $273.7 million contract to provide information technology support services at a NASA-run space research facility in Maryland. NASA said Thursday that Arctic Slope Technical Services will help develop, run and sustain Goddard Space Flight Center’s information systems software under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract…

GSA Picks 6 Firms for 9 Leasing Support Services Contracts; Chris Wisner Comments

Six companies have secured nine Leasing Support Services contracts that seek to provide leasing and broker support services for the General Services Administration‘s contracting officers. GSA said Wednesday it awarded the contracts based on four geographic zones in an effort to streamline the competition process for small businesses and business transactions between brokers and GSA’s leasing personnel…

NASA-Google-USRA Partnership to Use D-Wave Quantum Computing Systems

D-Wave Systems will install new quantum computing systems at NASA‘s Ames Research Center in California in support of the space agency’s research partnership with Google and the Universities Space Research Association…