Dana Mehnert, senior vice president and chief global business development officer at Harris (NYSE: HRS), will be functioning as president of the firm’s communication systems business beginning Sept. 30. He will oversee the $1.9B business and succeed Chris Young, whose nearing retirement follows a 36-year tenure with Harris and its subsidiaries...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ (Nasdaq: HDP) U.S. public sector business, has said government agencies should integrate security measures as they increasingly leverage the internet of things to manage data across multiple sources, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 5. Bierweiler said in a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” ECS has been named a direct partner in a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) program that enables it to offer the latter’s cloud services to its public and private sector customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The science, technology and engineering company said Monday it will deliver Azure, Offic...
Tom Vecchiolla, a 15-year veteran of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has been appointed president and CEO of engineering services contractor VT Systems in a move slated to take effect Dec. 1. He will succeed John Coburn, who has led VT Systems over the past 17 years and will remain as its non-executive chairman, the company said Monday. Vecchio...
John Fraser, formerly an executive vice president of ASM Research, has been promoted to president of the Fairfax, Va.-based subsidiary of Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. He succeeds the retiring Eric Warden, a 25-year ASM Research veteran who assumed the role of president in September 2016, Accenture Federal Services said. œJohn Frase...
Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential $51M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support installation of close-in weapons systems on U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ships. Reston, Va.-based Serco Inc. said Wednesday it will help the military services install, update and mod...
Four companies have each won a potential five-year, $75M contract to provide the Food and Drug Administration™s center for biologics evaluation and research with data, tools and infrastructure for use in the surveillance of vaccines, tissues, blood products and other biologics. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says IBM (NYSE: IBM), Acumen, Dov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 11, 2018 — A Fluor-led (NYSE: FLR) joint venture has concluded work on a segment of a new bridge in New York as part of a construction project to replace the Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge‘s eastboun...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 11, 2018 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) is set to receive a contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency for the delivery of global network connectivity services as part of a Pacific Air Forces commercial pathfinder effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Sunday the p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 11, 2018 ” Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) investment arm is backing Denver-based BridgeSat in the startup’s effort to develop an optical ground station network that supports space-based connectivity, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The aerospace company said Monday its HorizonX Ventures unit led a...
