Darron Makrokanis, a former program manager and senior business development executive at Splunk, has joined Tenable Network Security as vice president of the company’s federal sales division. He brings defense, intelligence and law enforcement market experience to his new role and will be responsible for the organization’s...
Diane Murray, a principal at Deloitte Consulting and an 18-year information technology consulting veteran, has been named leader of Deloitte‘s federal civilian sector. She succeeds Dan Helfrich, who has taken a new role as head of the federal practice at the professional services company, Deloitte said Monday. “[Murra...
Five companies have each received a six-month contract modification to continue performing analytical test and evaluation work on various systems for the U.S. Navy. Alion Science and Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), CGI Federal (NYSE: GIB), Gryphon Technologies and Wyle Laboratories will perform work under separate contracts th...
Keith Block, president and vice chairman of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), will serve in the additional role of chief operating officer at the San Francisco-based cloud computing company. He will lead day-to-day operations as well as global sales, partnerships, channels, strategy, customer service and consulting functions, Salesforce said Tuesday. Sal...
As covered here yesterday, GovCon Wire’s parent company Executive Mosaic announced its inductions for the 2016 edition of the Wash 100 — EM’s annual selection of the government contracting arena’s most influential voices. These 100 individuals were chosen by EM’s editorial and organizational leadership as the executives...
Jan. 25 – Jan. 29 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Needless to say, we have a lot to address here after a heavy news week that featured news of government contracting’s largest merger this decade, plus a batch of 2015 earnings report...
Reston, Virginia-based contractor Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) has agreed to a merger with the government information technology and services businesses of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) under a $5 billion, tax-free Reverse Morris Trust transaction to create the government services industry’s largest publicly-traded contractor by revenu...
The GovCon Index retreated with a loss of 1.295 percent to 70.580 Monday in a move that puts the Index back into a correction, or 10 percent off its most recent high, for the second time this month. Monday’s plunge starts a week in which investors who follow defense and government contracting sectors await a ...
Dale Stucke, a finance executive and certified public accountant, has joined Constellation West as chief financial officer. Stucke will be responsible for the company™s strategic and financial performance and corporate value initiatives, Constellation West said Friday. œAs we embark on a period of extraordinary growth and expansion into ne...
The GovCon Index continued to mirror deep losses in U.S. and global financial markets Thursday with a decline of 2.293 percent to 74.525 as investor fears over China’s economy and falling oil prices grew. Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) were the Index’s only two gainers Thursday a...
