Weekly Roundup March 27 – March 31 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, the GovCon industry witnessed several high-profile private sector executive moves. It goes without saying that these leadership changes could impact industry in a positive way...
Saab has received a potential nine-year, $358.4 million contract from Sweden™s defense material administration to develop and produce an anti-ship missile platform for integration with the country’s Visby-class corvette ships and Gripen E fighter jets. The anti-ship missile system will have an updated target seeker and combat ra...
Frank Backes, former CEO of Braxton Technologies, has been named vice president of business development for satellite communications products and federal satellite solutions at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS). Kratos said Thursday Backes will focus on products and service offerings for the defense, intelligence ...
Tom Kennedy, vice president and general manager of Veritas Technologies™ public sector business, has said federal agencies must create strategies for organizing unstructured data, leveraging cloud-based tools to manage the massive amounts of information. Kennedy wrote that a cloud-based archiving platform, for instance, works to help agencies a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eG_TSYVFko U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, conduct a frag assault course at Graze Range, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds for Talon Exercise (TalonEx) 2-17, Yuma, A.Z., March 21, 2017. The purpose of TalonEx was for ground combat units to conduct integrated train...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1hXIr316B4 Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory are using shark antibodies to develop new alternatives to chemical and biological threat detection tools. The lab is developing antibodies that would be used to alert for the presence of bio threats on and off the battlefield....
In spite of investors experiencing the Trump’s administration inability to pass healthcare legislation; the 0.25 percent increase in Federal Fund Rates (with strong speculation of more increases to come later in the year), the U.K. triggering Article 50, and the downward pressure on the energy sector and oil prices from the global oil glut the...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 31, 2017 ” Carl D™Alessandro, former president for critical networks at Harris Corp., has been selected for this year’s Executive Mosaic Wash100 for his leadership in air traffic control and communications. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector executives sel...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys™ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, has said government agencies should assess the expectations of employees in order to establish a “modern and flexible” workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported We...
Kyle Brooks, a senior client adviser at MIL Corp., has been promoted to also serve as assistant vice president of the Charleston, South Carolina-based professional services contractor. MIL said Wednesday that Brooks has advised the company’s State Department client on operational, business and technical matters over the past 13 years...
