McLean, Virginia-based information technology services provider Smoothstack has appointed Chris Coligado, a senior executive with over 20 years of technology consulting experience, as executive vice president and federal market lead. As head of the federal practice, Coligado will help Smoothstack advance the adoption of the hire-train-deploy framewo...
A report by financial services company Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) indicates that 79 mergers and acquisitions occurred in the defense and government market during the second quarter of 2024, a 6.7 percent increase from the prior-year period. The June report was issued by Raymond James’ defense and government investment banking team, where 2024 W...
Frank Varga, formerly chief operating officer at Apogee Engineering, has been promoted to president and CEO of the Colorado-headquartered national security and defense technology and services provider. He succeeds Wes Georges, founder of Apogee, and helps drive the growth of the company’s capability offerings for the federal and government mar...
Tim Davis, formerly an associate director at Raytheon’s intelligence and space division, has been appointed vice president of strategy and operations at Chugach Government Solutions. In his new role, Davis will oversee the implementation and coordination of business strategies across the CGS enterprise, the Anchorage, Alaska-headquartered gove...
Andrew Benson, a nearly two-decade finance and pricing executive in the government contracting industry, was appointed vice president of pricing at Astrion, an Oasis Systems-ERC combination working to addressing cybersecurity, mission support, systems engineering and digital challenges across the defense, space and government sectors. Benson brings ...
The FBI has released the list of 95 awardees on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The bureau first announced the award of the ITSSS-2 BPA on May 24 in a SAM.gov notice. According to the award notice, 31 large companies and 64...
Mike Spagna, formerly senior vice president of the federal civilian sector at HighPoint Digital, has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operations officer at the government information technology services provider. He will manage HighPoint Digital’s overall operational functions and help drive its service delivery and expansio...
Nine companies have secured spots on a potential 10-year, $4 billion multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency research, develop, test and evaluate scientific and technological platforms for combating weapons of mass destruction. Work under the IDIQ will be divided into three mission ...
A report by financial services company Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) shows that there were 76 mergers and acquisitions in the defense and space industry during the first quarter of 2024, a 55 percent increase from the same period the previous year and a 31 percent rise from the previous quarter. Defense and Space M&A Activity...
Ashlee Dominguez, formerly a vice president at Valiant Integrated Services, has been appointed VP of growth at HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division, according to her LinkedIn post published Thursday. She will help identify and pursue defense and federal contract opportunities in the command, control, communications, computers, cyber...
