Kevin Scott, senior vice president of infrastructure at business social networking company LinkedIn, has been named chief technology officer at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Scott will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as a member of the senior leadership team and will oversee œstrategic, cross-company initiatives, Microsoft said Tuesd...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Tuesday on a lift from Boeing (NYSE: BA) and government services stocks as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) fell after the defense contractor reported material weaknesses related to internal controls for financial statements at its Sikorsky helicopter subsidiary. All three major U.S. stock indices also...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 24, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business, predicts that the U.S. government will increase efforts to develop offensive cyber techniques in 2017 to help strengthen the cybersecurity of government data, political systems and the country’s critical infr...
Jeh Johnson, former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has returned to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP to serve as a partner in the law firm™s litigation department. Johnson will work through Paul, Weiss™ Washington and New York offices and will advise boards of directors and management teams on regulatory a...
Terry Crimmins, formerly vice president and deputy general manager of the electronic systems sector at BAE Systems˜ U.S. subsidiary, has been promoted to president of the sector. BAE said Monday Crimmins succeeds Tom Arseneault, who returned to his full-time post as chief operating officer of the subsidiary –&nbs...
Mark Monroe, former vice president of finance and corporate controller at Deltek, has joined Arlington, Virginia-based contractor PAE as corporate controller. He was most recently responsible for Deltek’s global accounting, corporate governance and financial reporting and analysis functions, as well as oversaw the financial ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index tumbled in conjunction with larger declines on Wall Street Monday as investors retreated from equities after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. GovCon Index decliners outnumbered gainers by a 4-to-1 ratio and two o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 23, 2017 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has entered into an agreement with Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) to offer the latter’s commercial and government cloud platforms through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Government clients can ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 23, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has assembled a group of technical and business executives to help review the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s technical initiatives, GovCon Executive said Friday. The technical advisory board will work to guide the company’s ...
Nelson Ford, president and CEO of LMI over the past eight years, has informed the Virginia-based nonprofit government consulting firm’s board of directors that he plans to retire from his dual role this spring. LMI said Thursday Ford will continue to serve until a successor is found and the board partnered with executi...
