TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 11, 2017 ” EY will provide audit support to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service under a potential $44.2 million labor-hour contract that will run through 2021 if all options are exercised, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers financial statement ass...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEqo609voU Gordon Felt, the brother of a Flight 93 passenger, discusses what one of the Navy’s three 9/11 tribute ships, USS Somerset (LPD 25), means to him. USS New York (LPD 21) and USS Arlington (LPD 24), both also amphibious transport dock ships, are named in honor of those victims and first responders of t...
Weekly Roundup September 4 – September 8 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson As the summer comes to a close, let’s take a quick look at the public-to-private sector executive moves over the past few months. A number of high ranking public sector offici...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has appointed Troy Lahr, vice president of investor relations, to serve as chief financial officer of the autonomous systems business and board member at the company’s United Launch Alliance joint venture with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) beginning Sept. 22, GovCon Executive reported Thu...
Ann Stefanek, spokeswoman for the U.S. Air Force, has said that L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has selected the Gulfstream Aerospace-built Gulfstream 550 airborne early warning aircraft to replace the military branch’s current electronic attack platform, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The Air Force contracted L3 to move electronic war...
Christopher Davis, formerly country leader and president of Raytheon™s (NYSE: RTN) business arm in the United Arab Emirates, has been named president of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense contractor™s international business organization. Davis succeeds Thomas Vecchiolla, who retired after a 15-year tenure with the firm, and will dire...
Navy Vice Adm. Mathias Winter, head of the F-35 joint program office, has said he expects JPO to close a deal with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for lot 11 F-35 Lightning II aircraft by Oct. 15, Defense News reported Thursday. Winter told reporters Wednesday after his speech at the Defense News Conference the JPO has completed a proposa...
John Marinaro, former director of the technical excellence office at NASA‘s Safety Center, has joined professional services and engineering firm KeyLogic as vice president for the federal civilian business. He will manage KeyLogic’s federal civilian portfolio and apply his engineering experience from NASA to the company’s...
As 2017 comes to a close, uncertainty has become a recurring theme in the government and its contracting counterparts. Whether from intra-party polarization, the ever looming debt ceiling, obfuscation between Capitol Hill and the private sector, or the seemingly untethered gauge of normalcy in these mercurial times, all can attest to the resolute vi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2017 ” Robert Hahn, president of LexisNexis‘ Reed Tech subsidiary, has said the federal government should aim to adopt agile project cycles, streamline the procurement process and employ top technological talent in order to drive innovation. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday that digit...
