Judy Marks, an executive vice president at the Dresser-Rand subsidiary of Siemens,  has been selected to succeed the retiring Eric Spiegel as CEO of the industrial conglomerate’s U.S. subsidiary in a move scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. “Judy has a deep knowledge of Siemens’ entire portfolio that will ...
Robert Day, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and former USCG chief information officer, has been appointed by Blackberry (Nasdaq: BBRY) to manage the mobile device maker’s new federal Cybersecurity Operations Center and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program product initiatives. Day is a federal information te...
Rainer Blair, a Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR) vice president and group executive, will elevate to an executive VP role at the Washington, D.C.-based science and technology company in a transition scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2017. Danaher said Thursday Blair will be responsible for the company’s $5 billion life sciences pl...
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a potential seven-year, $384 million contract to produce a thermal weapon sight technology that will work to help soldiers identify and engage targets in the battlefield. BAE said Wednesday the military branch ordered the company’s Family of Weapon Sights“Crew Served system compris...
A United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary has secured a $309.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide propulsion system services in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Pratt & Whitney will supply hardware, training course materi...
The chief executives of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) described to investors Wednesday their expectations of the foreign military sales environment in light of oil price volatility worldwide and President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign suggestion that U.S. allies contribute more financial resources to their own defen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2016 ” American Systems will continue to deliver managed hosting and information technology services for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency‘s Security Cooperation Enterprise Solution under a five-year, $36.6 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it will ...
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...
