By Ross Wilkers
Feb 11, 2021
One publicly-traded blue chip defense company and two others with significant footprints in the federal market reported their financial results for 2020 and spoke to investors this week.
All in the name of putting a period to the paragraph on last year and looking ahead to whatever 2021 presents.
Here are snapshots of what these contractors said to investors in conference calls Thursday and Wednesday.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
The shipbuilding giant’s CEO began the call Thursday by summing 2020 up as a year that “will be remembered as one of the most challenging business environments that we ve ever had to navigate.”
Operator
Greetings. Welcome to the ASGN Incorporated Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]
I will now turn the conference over to your host, Kimberly Esterkin of Investor Relations. You may begin.
Kimberly Esterkin
ADDO Investor Relations
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today for ASGN s fourth quarter 2020 conference call. With me are Ted Hanson, President and Chief Executive Officer; Rand Blazer, President of Apex Systems; George Wilson, President of ECS; and Ed Pierce, Chief Financial Officer.
Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that our commentary contains forward-looking statements. Although we believe these statements are reasonable, they are subject to risks and uncertainties and as such, our actual results could differ materially from those statements. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are described in today s press release and in our SEC filings. We do not assume any obligat
Harrisburg’s landmark Jackson House collapses, faces demolition
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Brick by brick, what remains of the Jackson House is being dismantled after a large portion of the historic rooming house that catered to jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald collapsed Thursday.
Construction workers were in the process of buttressing the wall containing a 2017 mural in preparation for a larger project to preserve the building, or at least its exterior.
“The second they put pressure on it, the center of the wall started to buckle,” said Matthew Long, the latest in a long line of owners whose restoration plans went unfulfilled.