Alion Science and Technology has appointed G. Maliek Ferebee, former corporate vice president of human resources at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), as chief HR officer of the McLean, Virginia-based government engineering and technology services contractor. He will oversee Alion Science’s efforts to grow its technical and operational wor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 29, 2016 ” Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T‘s (NYSE: T) global public sector solutions business, was among the six female executives from the company to be awarded during the 2016 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Kapoor won the silver award in the Woman of the Year catego...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded nine companies positions on a potential five-year, $145 million contract for transient alert services to the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers management, arrival, processing, departure, emergency, special event and distinguished v...
Stephen Moret, president and CEO of the Louisiana State University Foundation, has been elected to serve in the same roles at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership beginning Jan. 1, Virginia Business reported Monday. Paula Squires writes VEDP’s board of directors approved Moret’s appointment in a 15-to-one vot...
Duncan McNabb, a retired U.S. Air Force general and former commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, has joined the board of directors of Elbit Systems‘ (Nasdaq: ESLT) U.S. subsidiary. He will join six other outside directors led by Robert Magnus, chairman of the board at Elbit Systems of America and a retire...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index ended its six-day win streak Monday as U.S. stocks also took a break from the post-election rally after a stretch that saw equities post three straight weekly gains. GovCon Index decliners edged gainers and six of its 11 S&P 500 components advanced with General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) the top net gaine...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2016 ” SAP (NYSE: SAP) and UXC Oxygen have developed a citizen engagement platform that will work to allow government agencies’ to deliver omnichannel citizen services through a single, centralized user interface, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The citizen engagement offering is designed to support ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2016 ” Scott Goldstein, Ensco‘s chief strategy and technology officer, has stated in an interview that national security threats continue to evolve since the 9/11 attack, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He noted during the interview on the Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland show that the U.S. faces a c...
Bruce Samuelsen, formerly special adviser to Alion Science and Technology CEO Bahman Atefi, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the McLean, Virginia-based government technology and engineering services contractor. Alion Science said Wednesday Samuelsen joined the company upon its acquisition of naval architecture firm ...
Quentin Gallivan, CEO of Hitachi Data Systems™ Pentaho subsidiary, has said government agencies should develop a œcentralized plan that seeks to leverage the use of business analytics tools and an open-source framework like Hadoop in order to facilitate data integration and access. Gallivan wrote that agencies should adopt an open-sou...
