Philippe Vallee, chief operating officer at Gemalto, will be endorsed by the board of directors to succeed Olivier Piou as the new CEO of the Amsterdam-based digital security firm, effective Sept. 1. Piou will retire on Aug. 31 but will continue to serve on Gemalto’s board as a non-executive director, Gemalto said Tuesday. “[Piouâ€â„...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 5, 2016 — Johnson, General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) executive vice president for the information systems and technology business unit, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his work in platforms and services offerings&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2016 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has christened the USS Ralph Johnson destroyer in a ceremony attended by U.S. Navy and company executives, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Saturday the ship christening ceremony also honored the Vietnam war hero namesake of the 30th Arleigh Bur...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2016 ” General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) will supply software-based radio systems for the U.S. Navy‘s submarines and surface ships under a $12.9 million contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will deliver the AN/USC-61(C) digital modular radios ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2016 ” Deloitte has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Datawheel to develop a visualization engine for publicly available data from government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Data USA engine works to aggregate data from multiple sources and visualize them for publi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2016 ” General Atomics has worked with the U.S. Navy to test the company’s aircraft arrestment system on the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The test at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst checked the functionality of the Advanced Arresting Gear t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide emergency communication services to the Department of Homeland Security under an $11.7 million award to exercise the second option year in a previously awarded contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday AT&T will support the Priority...
Michael Link, a former senior vice president from global marketing research firm Nielsen, has joined Bethesda, Maryland-based services contractor Abt Associates as president and CEO of its public policy research subsidiary Abt SRBI, the parent company said Monday. Silver Spring-headquartered Abt SRBI conducts opinion surveys and other...
Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $170.2 million contract modification to produce and deliver additional AH-1Z aircraft to the government of Pakistan under the foreign military sales program. The company will build nine AH-1Z and nine auxiliary fuel kits under a contract with the U.S. Navy, the Defense Depart...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2016 ” A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) executive has urged the U.S. Navy to proceed with the LX(R) dock-landing ship development program in fiscal 2018 rather than fiscal 2020, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Reuters reported Tuesday HII CEO Mike Petters said starting the progr...
