TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) CEO Roger Krone and his wife Helen have made a naming gift for a building at the Georgia Institute of Technology that houses the university’s biomedicine and bioscience research, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Georgia Tech said Monday the Roger A. and Helen B. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2017 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) CEO Ken Asbury has said he believes the passage of the $1.1 trillion omnibus fiscal year 2017 budget will drive government contracting activity and generate opportunities for the company as it starts its own fiscal 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Washington Business...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2017 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received recognition from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for its work as a supplier of pneumatic suspension and release systems for the latter’s F-35 and F-22 fighter aircraft, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The supplier award is based on criteria such as a 98-perc...
The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment that would have halted the creation of a U.S. Space Corps and instead moved forward with the provision as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which passed late Wednesday night. The provision creates a separate military branch for space operations. The U.S. Air Force...
Lucas Hicks, facilities director at Huntington Ingalls Industries™ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been promoted to vice president of construction for the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier at the division in a move that takes effect July 1. The 26-year HII veteran will directly report to Ken Mahler, VP...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI7b8uI2x-s In early 2017, the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence held a one-day event inviting participants to come up with ideas to detect fake news. The gathering in Riga (Latvia) attracted 28 people from various backgrounds such as coders, journalists and statisticians. The winning idea was a Faceb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2017 ” A team comprised of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and AT&T (NYSE: T) will help the Defense Information Systems Agency transform the Defense Department‘s network infrastructure into a software-defined network, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. “Software-defined networking is changing how enterprises conn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2017 ” Robert Catalanotti, a retired U.S. Army major general who joined SOS International in September 2015 as managing director of Middle East initiatives, has been named senior adviser to the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, ExecutiveGov reported Wednesday. The Defense De...
Randall Wotring, president of AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) technical and operational services business, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based engineering services contractor in a move that takes effect July 1. He will succeed Stephen Kadenacy, who will step down as COO and president of AECOM after a 10-yea...
Lisa Atherton, formerly executive vice president of military business at Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary, has been appointed president and CEO of Textron Systems. She replaces Ellen Lord, who will be nominated by President Donald Trump as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, Textron said Wednesd...
