On Monday, GovConWire reported that President Trump would nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to succeed Dan Coats as the director of National Intelligence.  “I think that John Ratcliffe is going to do an incredible job, if he gets approved,” Trump told reporters at the White House via CNN. “I think …

Doug Natal, former vice president and general manager of the federal systems division at MapR Technologies, has joined data analytics company Sumo Logic as general manager of its federal unit. The 20-year government technology market veteran will oversee Sumo Logic's go-to-market strategy that focuses on providing mission support to U.S. public sector clients.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 24, 2019 — VT Systems‘ shipbuilding business works to ensure its new blast and paint facility in Mississippi, which became fully operational in October, is aligned with its effort to follow environmentally responsible business practices for marine construction, ExecutiveBiz reported April 9. MarineLink reported April 5 …

Thomas Lydon, formerly a senior vice president at Sabre Systems, has joined Chantilly, Va.-based technology integrator VT Group as president of the newly established aviation solutions division. He will oversee the combined business of VT Group’s global aviation services and the logistics and engineering capabilities of the newly acquired National Technologies …

Chantilly, Va.-based technology integrator VT Group has purchased National Technologies Associates for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand its portfolio of sustainment services and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for defense clients. “NTA shares the VT Group passion for engineering excellence and our commitment …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 28, 2018 — A joint venture of PAE and AOC has secured a Group 3 interim flight clearance from Naval Air Systems Command that serves to verify the airworthiness of a vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft system, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. PAE ISR said Monday the Resolute Eagle VTOL variant has been verified …

The U.S. Army has awarded KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services business a potential $133 million task order to support engineering and technical analysis of the Patriot missile defense system and adjunct systems. KBRwyle will help the service branch implement  engineering changes, modification retrofits and technical upgrades as well as conduct reliability, availability and maintainability …

Chris Pogue, a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) veteran, has joined Maxar Technologies’ (NYSE: MAXR) MDA business as president of the newly created government division. Pogue will directly report to Mike Greenley, MDA group president, and oversee defense, enterprise information technology, Earth observation systems and government space robotics business lines, Maxar said Tuesday. …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2018 — BAE Systems and Dell EMC have established an alliance to offer a scalable hybrid cloud platform geared to support the federal government’s information technology modernization initiatives, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. BAE said Monday the Federated Secure Cloud is designed to give access to mission-critical tools …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2018 — Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of Hughes Network Systems‘ government solutions business, has said communication service providers should offer multiple connectivity options to public sector customers in order to address critical situations, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Via Satellite reported Wednesday that Bardo favored a mixed …