Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 5, 2016 – Iridium (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has been inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for leading the company’s NEXT satellite constellation project. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and pu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 1, 2016 ” Sutherland Global Services‘ vice president for government relations and marketing has said vigilance, intelligence sharing and technology investments can help the U.S. government protect what he calls “soft” targets, Executive Gov reported Thursday. Chuck Brooks wrote in a guest piece pu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 23, 2016 ” Earl Matthews, vice president of U.S. public sector enterprise security solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), will participate at a panel discussion during a FireEye-hosted (Nasdaq: FEYE) event on April 12, GovCon Executive reported March 16. FireEye said March 15 Matthews will b...
The GovCon Index held in narrow range for the entirety of Tuesday trade and closed at a nominal loss of 0.084 points to 75.331, which ends the Index’s four-day stretch of gains. U.S. markets also struggled for direction after the early morning terrorist attacks at the main airport and a subway station in Brussels that killed at...
Joseph Battaglia, president of military communications and sensor systems maker Telephonics, plans to retire on Sept. 30 after 21 years of leadership at the surveillance and communication systems provider. Telephonics’ parent company Griffon (NYSE: GFF) said Tuesday that Kevin McSweeney, executive vice president a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to make its decision on the transition to a new aircraft surveillance system by the end of 2016, ExecutiveBiz reported March 9. Reuters reported March 8 Desch said at the Satellite 2016 confe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 10, 2016 ” A Thomson Reuters-built investigative tool has helped the San Bernardino County police in California track the suspects in a Dec. 2 terrorist attack using proprietary and publicly available records, ExecutiveBiz reported March 3. The San Bernardino Sun reported March 2 Thomson Reuters gave reco...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 26, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has moved back the launch of the first set of Iridium NEXT satellites to July using SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket following delays in obtaining clearance from the Russian government, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The report said Iridium CEO Matt Desch told...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2016 ” Tom Romeo, president of Maximus‘ (NYSE: MMS) federal services business, has said the government continues to explore ways to bolster the “citizen journey” in public services through lessons learned from commercial customer experiences. “Agencies and their industry partners need to e...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 24, 2016 ” Battelle has appointed Jeff Geppert, a former internal research coordinator for health and consumer solutions, as one of the senior research leaders at the nonprofit company, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Battelle said Monday Geppert will be in charge of the company’s work with th...
