Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/30/2015

Rockwell Collins Posts 13% FY 2015 Earnings Climb, Revenue Up 5%; CEO Kelly Ortberg on Currency Impacts, Budget Agreement

Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported full fiscal year 2015 earnings of $5.19 per share to exceed 2014 figures by 14…

Nick Urick Joins Palo Alto Networks as Federal Sales VP

Nick Urick, formerly vice president of federal sales at FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), has been appointed to the same position at Santa Clara, Calif.-based firewall provider Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW)…

2-Year Budget Plan Heads to Obama’s Desk After Senate Approval

The Senate voted 64-35 early Friday to pass a bipartisan budget deal that sets two-year government spending priorities and averts a possible federal default next week, Bloomberg reported Friday. Terrence Dopp and Kathleen Miller write the budget plan, which is headed for President Barack Obama’s signature, would keep the government afloat through March 2017…

Northrop’s Astro Aerospace to Produce Radar Antennas for NASA’s NISAR Satellite; John Alvarez Comments

A Northrop Grumman business unit has won a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and produce radar antennas for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace will use and integrate its AstroMesh mesh reflector with the radar-based imaging satellite’s 12-meter aperture antenna, Northrop said Friday…

CRGT Vet Charles Cosgrove Joins STG as CFO; Paul Fernandes Comments

Charles Cosgrove, formerly chief financial officer at systems integrator CRGT, will join Reston, Va.-based government contractor STG in the same role on Nov. 6. “Cosgrove has the ideal combination of experience as a public company CFO with in-depth knowledge of the U…

Robert Cardillo: GEOINT, Satellite Market Expansion Helps Promote Transparency, Innovation

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo has said the expansion of the geospatial intelligence and satellite market in the past three decades has resulted in a “global transparency” that he believes could help spur innovation…

SAP NS2, Altamira Form Big Data Analytics Partnership

A U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP and Altamira Technologies have forged an alliance to combine their big data analytics platforms into a joint offering as the companies seek help clients discover relationships in their data…

CIA’s John Brennan: Tech Proliferation, Nation-State Instability Affect US Cybersecurity Efforts

CIA Director John Brennan has said work to monitor cybersecurity threats has become a challenge for U.S. intelligence agencies due to the proliferation of modern technologies, destabilization in nation states and lack of cyber policy frameworks, GW Today reported Wednesday…