Karen Wheeler, a senior vice president and chief procurement officer of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed to succeed Kimberly Admire as the company’s chief human resources officer in a transition scheduled to take effect Feb. 4, 2017. SAIC said Monday Wheeler will oversee em...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2yAX98aaI Marines with Task Force Recon, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, participate in a force on force exercise during Steel Knight 17 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 6-12, 2016. Task Force Recon is a combination of different reconnaissance e...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher on contributions from large defense prime contractors as U.S stocks pared back some gains from earlier in the session after the terror attack in a Berlin Christmas market and the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 3-to-1 r...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” A Parsons subsidiary has received a five-year task order from the General Services Administration to provide command, control, communications, computers and capability development support services to the U.S. Cyber Command, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Secure Mission Solutions will perform research and dev...
Adam Wilson, CEO of San Francisco-based software firm Trifacta, has said federal agencies should adopt data wrangling platforms and techniques in order to expedite analysis of big data workloads. Wilson wrote that such tools are designed to help agencies deal with a range of complex information and allow analysts to work directly with the avail...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has secured an $82.4 million contract to convert the U.S. Army‘s M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to the M1A2S configuration. The Defense Department said Friday contract work will occur in Lima, Ohio and in Sterling Heights, Michigan through March 29, 2019. The Army Contracti...
December 12 – December 16, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week reminded us that change is always a constant in the government contracting arena as we learned of an impending relocation by a large defense contractor and the return of a veteran GovCon...
The National Nuclear Security Administration has selected a subsidiary of Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) for the potential 10-year, $2.6 billion contract to help operate and manage Sandia National Laboratories sites located across four states. NNSA said Friday National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia will lead a te...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, and Rick Lober, a VP and general manager at Hughes Network Systems, were among the executive speakers at the Satellite Industry Association™s Defense Department Commercial SATCOM Workshop, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Cowen-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” NTT Data (NYSE: NTT) will operate and maintain the SAP-based business management platform of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System as part of a five-year agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. “CalSTRS was seeking a vendor that would be able to support expansion of their S...
