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...
Stockholders at L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) approved during their respective meetings Thursday the proposals needed to close the proposed merger of the companies. œThis vote represents a key milestone in our merger process, Christopher Kubasik, L3 chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement published Thursday. œ...
Teresa Shea, formerly executive vice president of technology at In-Q-Tel, has joined Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) as VP of cyber warfare and mission innovations within the intelligence, information and services business. She will report to John DeSimone, VP of cybersecurity and special missions at Raytheon IIS, and lead the integration of the company™s...
Applied Insight announced on Thursday that it is moving its headquarters from Ashburn, Va. to Tysons Corner, Va. and made changes to strengthen its leadership team. Mehdi Cherqaoui will serve as chief financial officer in a company that focuses on analytics, cloud and mission IT for federal government clients. He joined the company this month...
Arlington Capital Partners announced its strategic investment in Octo Consulting Group on Thursday. Octo develops solutions for federal government clients in health care, national security, civilian and defense agencies. The company™s expertise with Agile software development, UI/UX, cloud, infrastructure, blockchain and other emerging te...
ABS Capital Partners closed a $23 million Series A funding round for deepwatch, a leading provider of intelligence-driven managed security services. deepwatch will accelerate research and development for its machine learning security analytics platform and market expansion. œCybersecurity leaders immediately recognize deepwatch™s truly rev...
Jay Hadley, a more than 22-year information technology services veteran, returned to CGI (NYSE: GIB) as vice president of consulting services, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday. He served as director of CGI’s environmental, health and safety IT practice from 2004 to 2006. Hadley most recently led the civilian business unit of DRT Strategies...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on military defense programs as discussed by Pentagon officials at the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee hearing Wednesday. John Rood, defense undersecretary for policy; Air Force Gen. Terrence O™Shaughnessy, commander of Northern Command; Lt. Gen. Sam Greave...
