Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 11/10/2015

AECOM FY 2015 Earnings Top Wall Street Forecast; URS Costs to Extend in FY 2016

AECOM (NYSE: ACM) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported earnings per share of $3.08 for the company’s 2015 fiscal year ended Sept. 30 to exceed the consensus Wall Street estimate by 1 cent…

Mac Thornberry: 2016 NDAA Would Be Step Toward Defense Acquisition Reform

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) has said the 2016 defense policy bill is a significant first step in their efforts to revamp the Pentagon’s acquisition system, Defense News reported Monday…

SPAWAR Vet Rod Smith Joins McKean Defense Group as CTO; Joseph Carlini Comments

Rod Smith, a former deputy commander and executive director of the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, has joined McKean Defense Group LLC as chief technology officer. He will report to CEO Joseph Carlini and be responsible for the company’s combat systems programs and growth strategy in the SPAWAR market, McKean Defense Group said Monday…

Reuters: Verizon Mulls Enterprise IT Portfolio Sale

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is considering a sale of its enterprise-grade technology portfolio in order to concentrate on its consumer market business line, Reuters reported Friday. Liana Baker and Greg Roumeliotis write Citigroup will help examine a potential sale of business landline and Internet services from Verizon’s unit formerly called MCI as well as data center offerings from its Terremark subsidiary…

Leidos, Federated Wireless Partner Under DARPA Spectrum Sharing Tech R&D Program

Leidos has partnered with Federated Wireless to build a technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to facilitate expansion of commercial wireless-radar spectrum sharing. DARPA awarded Leidos a potential one-year, $7…

Lockheed Awarded Contract to Complete DARPA RF Mapping Program; John Chapin Comments

Lockheed Martin has received an $11.8 million contract to execute the final phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s radio frequency mapping program intended to help operators view real-time spectrum use…

EMCOR Subsidiary Awarded Navy Facility Support Contract

An EMCOR Group subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $40.2 million contract to provide facility support services for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday EMCOR Government Services will provide preventive maintenance, testing, inspection, training, management supervision, equipment and labor services for the Naval Support Activity Bethesda in Maryland under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded the contract through the competitive acquisition process with six offers received…

GSA’s 18F Selects $1 Bid in Federal Open-Source Code Acquisition Contest

The General Services Administration’s 18F unit says it has found in an experiment that the “micro-purchase” approach could be used to buy open-source codes for federal digital projects. V…