Jerry Tarnacki, vice president of quality and mission assurance at Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), has been named senior VP of the firm’s newly created space business unit. Tarnacki will directly report to Eileen Drake, Aerojet™s president and CEO, and manage all programs related to defense, NASA, space and launch strategies, in-space pr...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) has named Talel Kamel as managing director of the avionics manufacturer’s operations in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa and appointed Bernard Bouillaud as sales director for the same regions. The company said Sunday it made the two leadership appointments as part of efforts to...
Jeffrey Harris, a 40-year national security professional, and retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Yakovac have been elected to the board of directors of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO and vice chairman of the board, said in a statement released Friday he expects Harris and Yakovac to bring to the board their...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index crawled to a fifth straight record close Friday to extend its current stretch of weekly gains to three and record a five-day advance of 2.72 percent . The U.S. stock benchmark S&P 500 also inched to a record close for a weekly gain of more than 1 percent despite investor uncertainty over ...
Weekly Roundup February 13 – February 17 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson As part of the continuing rollout of our 2017 Wash100 class, this week we want to highlight a select group of executives who continually shape the government contracting arena™...
Omniplex World Services has received a potential $80 million contract to provide protective security officer services to the Department of Homeland Security headquarters at Nebraska Avenue Complex in Washington. The company said Thursday it will assist the DHS Force Protection Branch in physical security missions for the de...
Tiffanny Gates, federal business president at Novetta since January 2016, will elevate to the CEO role at the McLean, Va.-based analytics technology company in March 2017. Novetta said Feb. 10 that Gates will succeed Peter LaMontagne, who will leave the company in a full-time capacity. Global investment firm Carlyle Group purchased N...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 16, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has added Avnet to its Government Reseller Program to enable the latter to offer AWS cloud products to the public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Avnet said Tuesday it will utilize the Avnet Cloud Marketplace to resell AWS cloud platforms and services ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 16, 2017 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has secured an $875,000 task order from the Federal Communications Commission to support FCC’s information technology center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Feb. 9 it will deliver managed trusted internet protocol ser...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 16, 2017 ” Parsons will provide program management, architectural design and construction management services to NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory under a contract award in support of an office upgrade project, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “Parsons has a history of 40+ years providing engineering, p...
