Roger Krone, president of the network and space systems business unit at Boeing (NYSE: BA) for nearly six years, will join Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as CEO on July 14 to succeed the retiring John Jumper, Leidos said Tuesday. This announcement comes nearly five months after Jumper announced his plans to retire from the chief executive...

Ed Casey, acting CEO of Serco Group since October, has been appointed chief operating officer for the U.K.-based government services contractor as Rupert Soames takes chief executive post on a permanent basis Wednesday. Casey will continue to serve on the board of directors and the board will consider resolutions regarding both Casey’s and Soa...

Tom Arseneault, formerly executive vice president of the product sectors at BAE Systems Inc. — the British contractor’s U.S. subsidiary — has been promoted to chief operating officer. BAE also announced Wednesday that Dave Herr, product sectors EVP and a 27-year defense industry veteran, will retire from the company. “As COO, Tom...

Gus Hunt, a 28-year CIA veteran and the agency’s former chief technology officer, has joined private equity firm LLR Partners as an operating partner. The firm has opened a second office in Arlington, Va. in addition to its Philadelphia location as it pursues investments in government technology and services businesses with annual revenues of ...

Federal agencies had many decisions to make during the first fiscal year of automatic across-the-board budget cuts under sequestration, which could continue for the next decade barring action from Congress. ExecutiveGov, Executive Mosaic‘s website for and about federal government leaders, has focused much of its coverage on how agencies have s...

Every month, ExecutiveBiz, sister site of GovCon Wire and part of the Executive Mosaic digital media umbrella, speaks with executives from across the government contracting landscape to capture the latest analysis and perspective on the direction of the market and the inside story of the execs and companies driving the latest activity. We often coll...

Many government agencies now seek the products and services of GovCon firms through indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracting vehicles, where companies compete for orders to provide that product or service to an agency. The General Services Administration says it uses IDIQs when it cannot determine a specific amount of supplies or services...

Dr. Stephen Fuller, director of the George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis, recently caught up with Executive Mosaic, parent company of this website and the Potomac Officers Club, to offer his insights and analysis on the impact of federal spending and sequestration on the Washington regional economy. Fuller will expand upon this persp...

The month of April saw a flurry of high-level executive appointments at the nation’s top government contracting firms and GovCon Wire led the way in covering new arrivals in leadership posts. Government Contracting Wire, the full name of Executive Mosaic‘s real-time news site, covered announcements of CEO transitions, promotions to the v...

The look and feel of Government Contracting Wire, or GovCon Wire, recently changed, but its mission remains the same: stay ahead of the most significant developments in government contracting and capture them from the GovCon executive perspective. GovCon Wire helps drive Executive Mosaic’s coverage of the business of government contracting as a ...