TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 11, 2017 ” The U.S. Navy looks to extend BAE Systems‘ development work on a pulsed power technology for the shipboard electromagnetic railgun weapon system through a contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday the potential sole-source aw...
Phil Quade, former special assistant for cyber of the National Security Agency director, has joined Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) as chief information security officer and strategic consultant to C-level enterprise clients. Fortinet said Tuesday Quade will oversee the company’s information security, compliance with global regulations and standa...
Miklos Kiss, a former program director at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International as director of international programs at the Arlington, Virginia-based acquisition management services contractor. ACT I said Tuesday Kiss oversees the compan...
Russ Mann, former Outerwall chief marketing officer and senior vice president of e-commerce, has been appointed president and CEO of business-to-government commerce intelligence firm Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI). Onvia said Monday Mann will also serve as a member of the board of directors and bring years of board- and executive-level corporate tra...
Rohit Ghai, president of Dell EMC’s enterprise content division, has been appointed president of Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DVMT) RSA subsidiary. He will succeed Amit Yoran, who was named chairman and CEO of Tenable Network Security in December. Ghai will oversee the delivery of RSA’s security platforms that work to ...
Billie Hartless, formerly human resources vice president at location-based cloud technology company HERE, has been appointed chief human resources officer at Polycom. The collaboration platform provider said Monday Hartless will succeed Laura Owen, who will move on to a new opportunity outside the company. “[Hartless] has a strong track r...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 9, 2017 ” The Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve office has recognized Concurrent Technologies Corp. for its employee support to members of the Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Thursday it received the Soaring Eagle Award, Extraordi...
Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners has purchased an automated threat detection and cyber hunting technology business unit from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) for an undisclosed sum to grow a commercial market footprint for machine learning-based tools. LLR said Monday it has committed $50 million in financing to su...
Stephen Oswald, former CEO of Capital Safety and a senior executive at United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), will join electronic and structural systems company Ducommun (NYSE: DCO) as president and CEO on January 23. Ducommun said Thursday Oswald will take over the CEO role from Anthony Reardon, who will vacate his operational ...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has secured a potential five-year, $87 million task order to help the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division test and evaluate weapons and combat systems. The company said Friday it will provide comprehensive T&E services across the U.S. Navy‘s weapons and combat systems pro...
