Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 04/27/2016

GovCon Index Defense & Services Primes Report Mixed 1Q Earnings; Boeing Misses

Six companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plus another large non-GCI government contractor reported their latest quarterly earnings statements before U.S. financial markets opened Wednesday…

Mitre-ASPI Partnership to Focus on Defense, Security, Cyber Research; Jason Bruzdzinski Comments

Mitre and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute have formed an alliance as part of their efforts to help address national security, defense and cyber challenges of their U.S. and Australian government clients…

NASA Signs 1st Startup License Agreement With AirFlare for Health-Monitoring Headgear

NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has awarded its first commercial license to AirFlare under the space agency’s startup support initiative, allowing the company to sell a Glenn-patented health monitoring headgear…

Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments

Engility has received four contracts worth approximately $102 million combined from the Intelligence Community during the first quarter of 2016. Intelligence agencies made the awards in the form of recompete, sole-source and new contracts, Engility said Wednesday…

DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed…

Peyton Baker: BWXT Captures $3B in Naval Nuclear Reactor Manufacturing Contracts

BWX Technologies have secured multiple contracts potentially worth a combined $3.1 billion to manufacture nuclear reactor components and fuel in support of the U.S. Navy‘s various nuclear propulsion programs…

Reports: HASC’s 2017 NDAA Calls for Army to Replace Patriot Radar, Assess Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles

The House Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2017 would hold back 50 percent of funds allocated for the Patriot missile defense system until the U.S. Army comes up with a plan to replace the system’s radar, Defense News reported Monday…

ICF Gets CDC Operations & Modernization Support Task Orders

ICF International has received two task orders with a combined value of $14.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide operations and modernization services in support of the Laboratory Response Network…

Defense News: Christopher Bogdan Says F-35 Software Issue Fixed

Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, has revealed that flight tests on the update to the F-35 fighter jet’s Block 3i software is near complete after contractors worked to fix identified software bugs, Defense News reported Tuesday…

Verizon Study: Stolen Devices, Privilege Misuse, Unintentional Errors Trigger Gov’t IT Security Incidents

A Verizon study has revealed that a majority of data breaches and security incidents in the public sector during 2015 were caused by lost or stolen devices, misuse of privileged user accounts, unintentional employee actions and crimeware…

Greg Bury Named VP for Canada Business Devt at Huntington Ingalls’ UPI Subsidiary

Greg Bury, former director of business development at Gas Liquids Engineering, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary UniversalPegasus International as vice president of business development for the unit’s Canadian operations…