Posts from GovConWire for 10/15/2015

Northrop Realigns Businesses, Appoints Gloria Flach COO

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will restructure from four business segments to three, effective Jan. 1, in a move President and CEO Wes Bush said is aimed to align strategies with customer requirements. On that date, Gloria Flach, corporate vice president and president of Northrop’s electronic systems sector, will assume the role of chief operating officer, the company said Wednesday…

NASA Chooses 11 for $400M Langley Center Research Support IDIQ

Eleven companies have been awarded positions on a potential five-year, $400 million contract to help build new aerospace systems at a NASA research facility in Virginia. NASA saidThursday contractors will compete to perform technology basic and applied research, development, analysis, integration and demonstration services for Langley Research Center…

Pentagon Initiative Urges Personnel to Help Protect DoD Networks from Cyber Threats

The Defense Department has introduced a new program that aims to teach individuals across the department how to safeguard the DoD Information Networks from potential cyber attacks, DoD News reported Wednesday…

Naval Research Lab Taps KEYW for Systems Instrumentation Support Task Order; Bill Weber Comments

The KEYW Corp. has won a potential three-year, $13.5 million task order to provide systems integration and instrumentation support services for the Naval Research Laboratory. KEYW said Tuesday the single-award contract covers general purpose electronic test instrument integration and evaluation and software development work, including software-defined radio engineering and cloud analytics implementation…

ICF Receives Health Informatics Task Orders from CDC; Randy Rutledge Comments

ICF International has received two task orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worth $21.9 million combined to maintain CDC’s HIV/AIDS surveillance system and analyze health-related data…

Reports: John Boehner Eyes Debt Limit Resolution Before His Retirement

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is in talks with the White House and Senate leaders to move forward a bill that would lift the U.S. debt limit, Politico reported Wednesday. Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer write that the speaker hopes to send the bill to the House floor soon as he prepares to step down and leave Congress by the end of the month…

State Dept Clears Proposed $495M Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia

The State Department has approved a potential $495 million foreign military sale of Sikorsky Aircraft‘s UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters, General Electric‘s T700-GE-701D engines and associated parts, equipment and services to Saudi Arabia…

October 14 Market Close: GovCon Index Falls 1%, Wal-Mart Decline Sinks US Markets

The GovCon Index extended its declines to a second consecutive day Wednesday with a loss of 1.460 percent to 72.637. U.S. stocks fell sharply after initial gains in the day’s first 30 minutes of activity as investors reacted to Wal-Mart’s prediction that its profit would fall during the next fiscal year and data that showed producer prices in China declined at its sharpest level since the 2007-08 financial crisis, according to Bloomberg…