David Smith, chief financial officer and director at Rolls Royce, will join U.K.-based science and engineering company Qinetiq as CFO. Qinetiq said Tuesday Smith will succeed David Mellors, who is scheduled to leave QinetiQ on Dec. 31 to join Cobham as the defense contractor’s CFO. “[David] has extensive executive experie...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) will provide training and advisory support to the U.S. Marine Corps under a two-year, $16 million task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Friday it will help the service branch train ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2016 ” Phacil is included in the list of 100 largest private firms in the Greater Washington area for the fifth straight year, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Thursday the Washington Business Journal’s 2016 list ranks the companies by revenue generated in 2015. “We ...
Three Wire Systems has appointed Serena Bliss, formerly senior information assurance officer at Lockheed Martin subcontractor eSolution Architects, as the new chief information security officer at Three Wire. Bliss has more than 15 years of cybersecurity experience in areas such as application development, certification and accreditation, Three...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $43.4 million contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a $43.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to provide risk reduction measures for the military branch’s first carrier unmanned aerial vehicle program. Boeing and Lockheed will also refine concepts and develop trade space models to support re...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at network visibility platforms provider Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO), has said government agencies should adopt cybersecurity platforms that work to provide œpervasive visibility into data across all networks in order to prevent data breaches. Reilly wrote that advanced persistent threat actors use a six-...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index dropped Friday but registered a weekly gain as U.S. stocks took a break from their two-day surge after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday. The post-Fed decision rally helped the GCI add 2.57 percent over five days with its S&P 500-listed c...
A business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded a potential five-year, $430 million contract to help the U.S. Census Bureau build, test and operate a multichannel contact center to support the 2020 Census Questionnaire Assistance program. General Dynamics Information Technology will also provide its Customer ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Capgemini‘s U.S. government solutions subsidiary is set to move its operations in Washington and Reston, Virginia, to a new 15, 301-square-foot consolidated headquarters in Tysons Corner, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Real estate advisory firm Serten Advisors said Tuesday the subsidiary wil...
Jim Chilton, vice president of strategic missiles and defense systems at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been promoted to president of the aerospace and defense contractor’s network and space systems business in a move that takes effect Oct. 21. Boeing said Thursday the 32-year company veteran will succeed Craig Cooning, who ha...
