Business/Financial

The Pentagon wants to tap financial experts from the private sector for short-term assistance as it nears its 2017 deadline for being ready for a full audit. Sandra Gregory, special […]

DuPont [DD] yesterday said it initiated the start up of its $500 million Cooper River Kevlar® facility near Charleston, S.C. The Cooper River Kevlar® plant uses state-of-the-art technology to allow […]

General Dynamics [GD] this week said its board of directors has reauthorized management to repurchase up to 10 million shares of the company’s common stock, marking the third time this […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has exercised a near one-year option with GeoEye [GEOY] to provide satellite imagery, according to a document filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The […]

CACI International [CACI] this week said it has completed its purchase of Advanced Programs Group, LLC (APG), a provider of Oracle [ORCL] e-Business services. Terms of the deal were not […]

Two years after taking over the top job at SAIC [SAI], the company said yesterday that Walt Havenstein will be retiring as CEO effective June 15, 2012 for personal reasons. […]

After a number of delays, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Friday selected Britain’s BAE Systems, MorphoTrust and NCR Government Systems to compete for work under a program to provide […]

General Dynamics [GD] on Friday said it has completed its purchase of federal healthcare information technology (IT) company Vangent, for $960 million from the private equity firm Veritas Capital. GD […]

The Army request for proposals (RFP) for the Cerberus System, a suite of trailer mounted elevated sensors designed to provide persistent surveillance in a combat zone, is under way. The […]

Federal agents yesterday arrested employees and former employees of Boeing’s [BA] Ridley Park, Pa., plant as well as one non-employee “in a coordinated, long-term, undercover effort aimed at prescription drug […]