Shareholders at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) approved Thursday the proposed combination with Amentum and both parties expect the transaction to close Tuesday, Feb. 15. Falls Church, Virginia-based PAE said Thursday holders of over 86 percent of its outstanding common stock were in favor of the merger and that all approvals needed to finalize the transaction ha...
NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), QinetiQ‘s space business and Space Flight Laboratory positions on the agency’s $6 billion procurement vehicle for spacecraft systems and related services through an on-ramp contracting procedure. The three awardees can vie for firm-fixed-price delivery orders from NASA centers and other feder...
Ruben Marchiani, former vice president of operations at NCI Information Systems‘ agile development sector, has been named vice president and market owner of national security at Excella. He will oversee business development, profit and loss management, growth strategy implementation and client service functions in his new position to help expa...
James Ebeler, former chief technology officer for IronBow Technologies‘ Department of Defense segment, has joined Three Wire Systems to serve as CTO. Ebeler will develop growth strategies for Three Wire’s software, hardware and security portfolios, and support technology insertion and continuous development of the company’s MyAdvis...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to introduce Jean Stack, managing director for Baird, as a winner of the 2022 Wash100 Award, the most respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for her leadership and success to drive significant company growth as well as more than $7 billion in M&A activity deals across the GovCon sector...
Susan Case, a four-decade industry veteran, has joined technical services contractor TekSynap as vice president of intelligence programs. Her career has included business development leadership work at multiple companies that serve the defense and intelligence sectors, TekSynap said Wednesday. Case held BD positions at Solerity, Eagle Ray, L3 Techno...
The General Services Administration has selected 557 small businesses as second phase awardees on the potential $50 billion 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract for information technology services. GSA said Thursday the award of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC’s second cohort to underserved and disadvan...
The recent confirmation of Andrew Hunter as assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics reflects the service branch’s reinvigorated focus on software as a key component of its broader information technology and modernization strategies. Hunter, who formerly led the defense-industrial initiatives group at th...
Pamela Braden, a 35-year veteran of the defense and technology sectors, has been named an operating partner at private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. She established and led Washington, D.C.-based engineering and technical services provider Gryphon Technologies, a former AEI portfolio company that ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT) acquired in December 202...
Jarrod Staller, a more than two-decade finance professional, has joined Charleston, South Carolina-based defense contractor Technica as chief financial officer, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee Technica’s finance team as it performs internal and external financial reporting, rate analysis and board reporting functions and works to meet ban...
