Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/20/2015

Lockheed 3Q Earnings, Revenue Top Forecasts; Marillyn Hewson Updates IS&GS Review and Sikorsky Buy

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported third quarter earnings of $2.77 per share, five cents higher than the consensus Wall Street estimate and one cent above EPS figures reported for the prior year period…

UTC 3Q Earnings Beat Forecasts, Revenue Below Estimates as Company Unveils $12B Stock Repurchase Plan

United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has reported third quarter earnings of $1.61 per share, six cents higher than the Wall Street consensus estimate and down 17 cents from the prior year quarter on a strong U…

Dirk Hoke to Join Airbus as Defense Chief, Deputy CEO; Tom Enders Comments

Dirk Hoke, former CEO of Siemens’ (NYSE: SI) large drives business unit, will join Airbus Group to succeed Bernhard Gerwert as CEO of the airplane maker’s defense and space segment in a transition to take effect April 1, 2016…

SAIC Lands $109M Army Aviation Systems Engineering Task Order

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential two-year, $109 million task order from the U.S. Army to help engineer aviation systems and develop software for aviation and missile research…

NASA Launches Website for Earth Images From Lockheed’s EPIC Camera

NASA has unveiled a new website to provide daily color images of Earth captured by the Lockheed Martin-built Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory. The space agency said Tuesday the website will show a sequence of images that show the sunlit side of the Earth as it rotates and will allow visitors to access a searchable archive of the collected images…

NGA Seeks Info on Tools for Insider Threat Detection in Virtual Infrastructure

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has asked industry to provide information on platforms built to detect insider threats in virtual network environments. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct…

BAE Picks Cobham to Supply F-35 Microelectronic Components

BAE Systems has ordered $51 million in microelectronic technologies from Cobham for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft’s radar and electronic warfare systems. Cobham said Mondaythat its microelectronic, motion control, microwave, cryptography, aerial refueling and pilot survival products are integrated into F-35s of U…

Intelsat CFO Michael McDonnell to Join Quintiles as Finance Chief

Michael McDonnell, chief financial officer at Intelsat since 2008, will depart the satellite services conglomerate in mid-December to take the CFO position at contract research organization Quintiles…