Posts from GovConWire for 03/14/2016

Textron Subsidiary Gets $461M Modification on Helicopter, Fuel Kit Contract with Navy

A subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT) has received a three-year, $461.1 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver new batches of AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters to the U.S. Navy…

Boeing Wins $319M Contract for Air Force C-32, C-40 Maintenance, Logistics Support

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a potential seven-year, $319 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force perform maintenance and logistics work on C-32 transport aircraft for high-level government officials and C-40 military personnel and transport planes…

Bud Langston Named Salesforce NA Public Sector VP for Strategy, Business Devt

Bud Langston, a 16-year veteran of Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), has joined Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as vice president of strategy and business development for the cloud computing company’s North American public sector business…

John McNellis, Melissa Flagg Appointed to DoD Leadership Roles

John McNellis, formerly corporate senior vice president at L-3 Communications, has been named deputy assistant secretary for space, strategic and intelligence systems at Defense Department. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced McNellis’ appointment to the Senior Executive Service role in a Defense Department release published Friday…

Lockheed to Help Navy Build Trident II Missile Navigation Subsystems

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a potential $93.4 million contract to design and produce eight inertial navigation subsystems for the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 missiles. The sole-source contract also covers continued technology refresh development support for Shipboard Systems Integration increment 8 and SSI increment 13, the Defense Department said Friday…

ID Experts Establishes Gov’t Sales, Customer Support Office in Washington

Identity protection services company ID Experts has opened a Washington D.C.-based office that will handle product sales and support services in the federal market. The opening of the facility, led by public-sector sales veteran Paul Norton, is part of the company’s push to help government customers address cyber threats, ID Experts said Tuesday…

March 11 Market Close: GovCon Index Rides Oil Surge to 1% Gain, Up for 4th Straight Week

The GovCon Index rebounded 1.541 percent to 73.980 Friday with all 30 stocks up in movement that mirrored U.S. stocks’ recovery on a sharp rise in crude oil prices and investor confidence in the European Central Bank’s latest stimulus initiative…