John Hamre, a former deputy secretary of defense and current president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has been elected to succeed the retiring Charles Robb as chairman of Mitre‘s board of trustees. Hamre also previously served as comptroller of the Defense Department, deputy assistant director for nationa...
John Frank, CEO of knowledge discovery firm Diffeo, has said government agencies should deploy a text analytics application equipped with machine intelligence functions to help search and analyze large data sets and in-progress documents. Frank wrote that such text analytics apps work to help users review large data repositories and recommend pieces...
November 7 – November 11, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Red was the dominant color all over the electoral map Tuesday night and green has taken over many corners of Wall Street since with defense and other GovCon stocks in particular the focus of...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 11, 2016 ” Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) CEO, has stated that sustained investment, interoperability and talent development could support and maintain the technological edge of NATO and its partners, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Hewson noted in written remarks published Wednesday that a defense industri...
LaMont Wells, formerly president and chairman of the board of directors at Technology Management Associates, has joined AECOM (NYSE: ACM), as executive vice president of business development for the company™s management services group. œLaMont™s understanding of the federal market will be invaluable as he leads our business developmen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat and Rick Lober of Hughes Network Systems have stated that commercial platforms could support the U.S. military’s broadband communications and satellite coverage needs, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. “The opportunity lies in engaging with commercia...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 ” Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP), will serve as chairman of the National Kidney Foundation’s Masquerade Kidney Ball fundraising event for the second consecutive year, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. “It was startling to me to see how pervasive kidney disease i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) has contributed to six of the 122 research projects to be presented at the six-day Supercomputing 2016 conference beginning Nov. 13 in Salt Lake City, Utah, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the research posters will be displayed during the event ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Absolute Business Solutions Corp. have awarded Fulcrum separate subcontracts in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Fulcrum said the subcontracts work to assist Booz Allen in its work under DIA’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2016 ” The National Cancer Institute has awarded Harris (NYSE: HRS) a five-year, $43 million contract to extend the latter’s data management support for the center’s intramural clinical trials program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Harris said Monday it will provide clinical data management, qua...
