Bob Kipps This year, GovCon Wire began a monthly internet series featuring a wrap up of government contracting merger and acquisition activity written byBudget Year Bob Kipps, KippsDeSanto & Company managing director. The “Monthly M&A Wrap Up” features the opinions of the more than 20-year transaction advisory and financial consulting... 

Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, recently caught up with Executive Mosaic, parent company of the Potomac Officers Club (P.O.C) and publisher of GovCon Wire, to provide some detailed insight and perspective into the 2013 sequester. McAleese will be speaking on May 14 at the P.O.C’s Post-Sequestration Summit with... 

Strongbridge Corp. has had an active first quarter to the 2013 year, as itInformation Technology expanded work with a key customer in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and continued to secure public-facing communications, help desk and outreach contracts. Here is a recap of some of their activity, updated to include some related activity... 

Gary Shankman Gary Shankman has joined Reston, Va.-based Serco Inc. as chief financial officer, the same position he previously held within SAIC‘s defense solutions segment. The more than 30-year government contracting veteran is a certified public accountant and earlier consulted and audited government contractors with Arthur Andersen, focusing... 

QinetiQ said itInformation Technology will simplify its compliance system in order to complete a program restructuring process that began around two years ago, Financial Times reports. The U.K.-based company said the transformation will decrease its need to consult the British government and removes the authority of Britain’s Ministry of Defence... 

The FBI is seeking to contract a company to aggregate public records, including thousands of secured, individual user accounts. According to a request for information posted Friday, the FBI said the provider must have a web-based user interface, should be able to run queries based on individual attributes and return all available public records and identifiers. Responses... 

Executive Mosaic, the publisher of this site and other contracting media properties, has rolled out the Winter edition of GovConExec Magazine. In itInformation Technology, we’ve taken a market-leading look at C4ISR, where the government is employing private sector technologies that are accelerating the next-generation of turning intelligence into... 

The World Trade Organization on Thursday reached an agreement on a revised government procurement agreement covering the U.S. and 41 other countries. According to a summary from the U.S. Trade Representative, the revised agreement gives U.S. suppliers access to 150 central government entities in several European Union countries, Israel, Hong Kong, Korea,... 

According to the Department of Defense, “General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is being awarded a maximum $45,500,000 cost plus fixed fee IDIQ which will provide Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Technology division with a contract vehicle related to evolving materials and manufacturing technology.  At this point, $3,511,722... 

According to the Department of Defense, “Boeing (NYSE: BA) is being awarded a $54,659,249 cost plus incentive fee, fixed price contract to provide total C-17 weapon system sustainment responsibility under a single prime contractor with the goal of achieving improvements in logistics support and mission readiness while reducing operating and support...