A Capstone Partners report shows that mergers and acquisitions in defense electronics, space and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance markets reached over 70 transactions in 2020, exceeding the deal volume recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The report attributed the year-over-year increase in deal ...
General Motors has appointed Steve duMont, a former executive at the intelligence and space segment of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), as president of its defense business arm, replacing Tim Herrick, who has been holding the post on an interim basis. duMont brings two decades of experience in working with big defense industry players, having serv...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to buy heavy armored combat systems, related equipment and services through a potential $1.685 billion foreign military sales agreement. The proposed FMS deal includes M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks, M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles, M1074 Joint Assault Bridges and M88A2 Hercules combat reco...
Michael Bosco, formerly vice president and business development executive for the emerging markets group at Akima, has joined Sev1Tech as senior VP of Army mission solutions. He will aim to grow Sev1Tech’s command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology offerings for the Army and spe...
Michael Koroluk, former chief growth officer at Firebird Analytical Solutions & Technologies, has been appointed director of business development at Noblis‘ homeland security segment. Noblis said Tuesday that Koroluk will oversee strategic efforts to expand Noblis’ portfolio and address customers’ evolving requirements in his n...
Dan Corbett, chief financial officer and chief development officer of Valiant Integrated Services, has been promoted to succeed the retiring Jim Jaska as CEO at the Herndon, Virginia-based government services contractor starting April 15. Valiant said Monday that Chief Operating Officer Mike Pilon will take over Jaska’s responsibilities ...
SEAKR Engineering has won a two-year, $60.5 million contract to further develop supercomputing processing hardware in the next phases of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aiming to integrate commercial technology into small military satellites. DARPA will initially obligate $8.06 million to the Centennial, Colorado-based space elec...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks has published his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday exploring the various categories of the emerging technologies that are heavily influencing the federal marketplace and government heading into 2021 and beyond. You can read Chuck Brooks’ latest GovCon Expert article...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, will proudly present the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and prominent award in all of GovCon, to the 100 distinguished executives who have demonstrated excellence in leadership, innovation, ...
Sean Roche, former associate deputy director of the CIA, and XLA President and CEO Gary Slack have joined the board of directors of Concurrent Technologies Corp. They fill the seats vacated by Howard Picking III and Mark Pasquerilla, who previously led the CTC board and its finance committee before their terms’ expiry, the company said Monday...
