Mary McDowell, an executive partner at Siris Capital Group, will join gobal communications services provider Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) as CEO once the latter company completes its merger with a Siris Capital affiliate. Polycom said Wednesday McDowell will succeed Peter Leav, who will continue to serve as CEO and board member until the completion of the...
Poland has issued a formal request to the U.S. government to acquire Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) Patriot integrated air and missile defense system for an undisclosed amount. Raytheon said Tuesday it will collaborate with Poland’s government and industry to help complete offset and industrial participation plans as part of&...
Charles Davis, former president and CEO of Seabury Group’s global aerospace and defense consulting division, has joined L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) as senior vice president of strategy at the company’s aerospace systems segment. L-3 said Tuesday he will report to Mark Von Schwarz, president of L-3...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 6, 2016 ” American Systems has secured a potential $52 million contract from Washington Headquarters Services to provide the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation professional engineering services, ExecutiveBiz said Friday. The company said it will help ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 6, 2016 ” The corporate investment arm of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has provided funds to support Phase One Consulting Group‘s federal business particularly in the field of federal information technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Phase One said Thursday Salesforce Ventures was one of the part...
Zel Technologies has won a five-year, $165.3 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide research and development and acquisition support services to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency. GSA’s federal systems integration and management center received three proposals for the cost-plus-award-fee task orde...
Bill Toti, former president of the global defense segment at Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB), has joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) as vice president for defense and homeland security, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee HPE’s work with the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State in hi...
Mike Milburn, senior vice president and general manager of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) Service Cloud, has said federal agencies should implement cloud-based customer relationship management platforms in order to facilitate the delivery of services and information to citizens. Milburn wrote CRM platforms in cloud environments also work to help agencies ma...
August 29 – September 2 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This calendar year so far has brought an unprecedented year of change and tectonic shifts to the government contracting sector and even with that said, what other catalysts could come in ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 2, 2016 ” The U.S. Navy has awarded AT&T (NYSE: T) an $11.3 million contract for the construction of five land mobile radio communication towers at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in California, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Defense Department said Wednesday that ...
