Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Jim McAleese, principal and owner of McAleese and Associates, with his third Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes McAleese for his work providing consulting and legal services to government contracting businesses. We are pleased to present the most coveted award in gover...
Ed Meehan, formerly chief operating officer at Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has joined management consulting services provider Guidehouse as aerospace and defense segment leader. He will oversee the company™s growth strategy and introduce innovative measures, commercial practices and new capabilities to the custo...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from a Government Accountability Office study on the U.S. Navy’s cost estimate for the Columbia-class submarine acquisition program. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, wrote in the report that GAO challenged the technological ma...
AM General received a $185M order to provide 648 military Humvee ambulance vehicles to the U.S. Army as part of a five-year requirements contract. The company said Tuesday it will deliver an initial batch of chassis systems to the Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center in the spring. JMTC is located at Rock Island Arsenal and will...
Saurabh Verma and Cristina Miller of Acumen Solutions have said government agencies should adopt platform as a service to quickly develop and deploy mission-impacting applications designed to improve the citizen experience. Verma and Miller wrote in a joint article that PaaS offers agencies more time to focus on innovation since the technology provi...
ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT) won a potential five-year, $128M task order to help the Customs and Border Protection Office of Acquisition manage programs and engineering operations. The company said Monday it will provide broad-based support services including the development and analysis of requirements, strategic planning and acquisition governance. Kevi...
Deloitte US has appointed three executives to new leadership positions, effective June 2. Lara Abrash, deputy CEO of Deloitte™s U.S. audit and assurance practice, will transition to the role of chair and CEO of Deloitte & Touche and succeed Joe Ucuzoglu, who will serve as CEO of Deloitte US starting June, the company said Monday. Abras...
Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday stepped down from her post as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CBS News reported Sunday. President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection, will serve as interim DHS secretary. The report said Nielsen™s resignation comes amid Trump™...
The Carlyle Group has completed its acquisition of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services provider StandardAero from Veritas Capital for an undisclosed amount. The deal was first announced in December 2018. Ramzi Musallam, CEO and managing partner of Veritas Capital and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said Veritas has played a key role in the gro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2019 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will integrate a new software-defined space technology, designed to enable the modification of small satellite missions while in orbit, into two nanosatellites that are scheduled to launch this year, ExecutiveBiz reported March 21. The company said March 20 its SmartSat architecture...
