Weekly Roundup April 10 – April 13 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Since the election of President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has been a topic of much discussion, particularly the Customs and Border Protection agency. Trump’s camp...
Sailors from the Los Angeles class-attack submarine USS Toledo (SSN 769) try out a prototype submarine steam suit ensemble during an orientation class held at Naval Submarine Base New London. The Navy Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) via the Office of Naval Research (ONR) TechSolutions Office has funded the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility (N...
Kevin Boyle, formerly senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Alion Science and Technology, has joined Vencore as SVP and general counsel. Vencore said Tuesday Boyle will oversee the company’s legal and ethics functions as well as contracts, procurement and property management organizations in his new positi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 11, 2017 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has secured a potential $6 million contract from the General Services Administration for hosted contact center and voice over internet protocol services to the Federal Acquisition Service, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the contract awarded through...
Arlington, Virginia-based government technology advisory services company Buchanan & Edwards has bought Fairfax, Virginia-based Reports and Requirements Company in a push to grow analytics offerings for customers in the national security sector. R2C offers consulting services to intelligence community and natio...
Wendy Van Wickle, former vice president of ground operations and logistics at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been named executive VP for the logistics and training division within Parsons‘ federal business unit. Parsons said Monday the more than 25-year aerospace and defense industry veteran will oversee the division’s oper...
Andy Malay, former director of public sector sales and business development at IBM‘s Workday business, has joined spend management software vendor Coupa Software as regional vice president for the federal government sector. He will be responsible for establishing Coupa’s value-as-a-service spend optimization model&nbs...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 10, 2017 ” Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T™s (NYSE: T) global public sector solutions business, has said the company will work with the First Responder Network Authority to migrate the public safety traffic to the band 14 network over the next five years, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. She told the Dalla...
Tim Merrigan, vice president of state, local and education at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said government agencies should work to centralize information technology operations in an effort to determine their requirements and change the way they deliver services to citizens. Merrigan wrote that agencies should also acknowledge the role of IT teams in help...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up 0.578 percent to 90.822 with the large platform and manufacturing companies leading the way. The GovCon Index advancing companies outpaced decliners 4 to 1. In what was a roller coaster of a trading day the major indices reacted minimally to the mixed news from the March jobs report. It was...
