Boeing Receives Long Lead Items Procurement Contract for FRP P-8A
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 6, 2015 — Boeing has received a $358.9 million contract modification to provide long lead items for the manufacture of 29 P-8A Poseidon aircraft ordered by the U.S. Navy and Australia, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Sixty-one...
HII Awarded Maintenance Support Work on USS Nimitz, Carl Vinson
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 6, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries said it has come into new work to provide support for maintenance services on two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Carl Vinson, GovCon Wire reported Thursday....
CTC Awards Winners to Great Americans Essay Event
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 1, 2015 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate CTC Foundation has held its Great Americans Day Essay Contest annual event with Johnstown, Pittsburgh, students tasked to write about media man and humorist Will Rogers as this year’s...
Lockheed Subsidiary Awarded VA Caregiver Resource, Time, Attendance Systems Contracts; Horace Blackman Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 1, 2015 — The Department of Veterans Affairs has chosen Lockheed Martin company Systems Made Simple to update and aid in the expansion of the agency’s Caregiver Application Tracker platform, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday. Systems Made...
DIA Picks Parsons for Support Work on Missile and Space Intelligence Center
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 30, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Monday on the Defense Intelligence Agency awarding Parsons Government Services a potential $68.8 million contract to provide support for the Missile and Space Intelligence Center. The Pentagon said Friday work...
Bruce Carlson Joins Lockheed Martin Board of Directors
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 29, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Friday on Lockheed Martin announcing Bruce Carlson’s election to its board of directors. Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin chairman, president and CEO, cited the former U.S. Air Force general’s expertise in security...
Mac Curtis Announces Jennifer Felix as New Addition to Vencore Executive Team
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 26, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Thursday on Jennifer Felix being named senior vice president and chief financial officer at Vencore, effective July 20. Felix joins Vencore from Sotera Defense Solutions, where she held the CTO...
CACI Lands SPAWAR Contract To Evaluate Naval Ship Maintenance Operations
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 25, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Wednesday on CACI International being awarded a potential $59.8 million task order to help the U.S. Navy evaluate how its ships are maintained. The work includes four years of modeling and analysis support for the Space and...
Leidos Exec Lou Von Thaer Takes Helm at DynCorp
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 24, 2015 — Lou Von Thaer, former national security sector president at Leidos, has joined DynCorp International as the new CEO to replace interim chief executive Jim Geisler, who occupied the caretaker role for 10 months, GovCon...
Lockheed EVP Rick Ambrose Ushers In Jill Hruby as New Sandia Labs Lead
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 24, 2015 — Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for Lockheed Martin Space Systems and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, has announced Jill Hruby as the new president and director of the federally funded...
Northrop Lands $61M Operations, Maintenance Work on Drone Demonstrator Aircraft
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 23, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Wire reported Monday on Northrop Grumman being awarded $61 million to conduct operations and maintenance work on the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator unmanned aircraft system for the...
Steve Pusey Appointed to FireEye Board of Directors
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 22, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Executive reported Friday on Steve Pusey, chief technology officer at Vodafone Group, being named to FireEye’s board of directors. “Steve Pusey is that rare breed of business leader who...
General Dynamics Continues Website Tech Support for CMS Program
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 19, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Wire reported Thursday on General Dynamics being awarded a $43 million to continue providing website technical support services to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ drug subsidy program for...
QTS Closes $326M Carpathia Buy
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 18, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — QTS Realty Trust has announced closing its purchase of cloud company Carpathia Hosting for $326 million, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday. “Carpathia is a strong complement to QTS’ fully integrated technology...
Angela Messer Moderates POC Internet of Things Convergence Panel
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 17, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — Angela Messer, an external vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, was a panel moderator at the Potomac Officers Club half-day summit on the Internet of Things this week, GovCon Wire...