AeroVironment‘s board of directors has chosen Chief Operating Officer and President Wahid Nawabi to succeed Tim Conver as CEO of the Simi Valley, California-based unmanned aircraft systems maker from May 2. Conver, who has led the company since 1992, will continue to serve as chairman of the board after he retires from the chief...
Washington-based engineering services contractor Allegheny Science and Technology Corp. has appointed Doug Kaempf as vice president of Energy Futures, a strategic business unit of the company. Kaempf will lead the company’s contract with the Energy Department for mission-oriented technical support to DOE’s Energy Efficiency and...
Darius Adamczyk, a former business unit chief executive at Honeywell (NYSE:HON), has been appointed to the newly-created president and chief operating officer role where he will report to Chairman and CEO Dave Cote and have responsibility over all of the global conglomerate’s operating units. The company said Monday Rajeev Gauta...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a $128.8 million contract to Veterans Technology to provide financial advisory and strategic planning services in support of the ballistic missile defense system. The contract requires financial management, earned value management, accounting, cost estimating and analysis, accounting and financi...
Turner Construction has landed a potential three-year, $114 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of the U.S. Naval Academy cyber security studies academic building. The company will design and build classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, lecture halls, offices, multipurpose spaces, a loading dock, an observator...
Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services subsidiary has secured a potential $105 million radar operations and maintenance services contract from the U.S. Navy to support the Navy Forces Surveillance Support Center. Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services will support the naval unit’s Relocatable Over-The...
The GovCon Index closed Friday with a gain of 0.348 points to 74.380 on positive movement in U.S. markets and posted a weekly gain of 1.273 percent. The U.S. markets’ performance is based on jobs data that indicates nonfarm businesses added 215, 000 workers in March to surpass analyst expectations, according to Reuters...
March 28 – April 1 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson An acquisition deal announced this week appears on the surface to have its roots in Tokyo and Texas but its impact will also be felt right here in the Washington region with respect to the fed...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 1, 2016 ” Capgemini will provide continued application development and management support to the U.K. agency for revenue and customs in line with the latter’s digital modernization program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will transition applications and services and pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 1, 2016 ” A joint venture of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC) and Serco will oversee the operations of the U.K. government’s atomic weapons establishment under an updated contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Serco said Thursday the AWE Management Ltd. JV will run the ...
