Mehdi Cherqaoui, formerly chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Phacil, has joined Applied Insight as CFO, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. He previously served as VP of finance and mergers and acquisitions at PAE™s VP of finance and mergers and acquisitions. Before that, Cherqaoui held various leadership role...
An industry team led by AECOM (NYSE: ACM) received a $750M contract extension to continue liquid waste management efforts at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. AECOM said Tuesday that Savannah River Remediation will operate saltstone production and defense waste processing facilities as part of the extended ...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the Navy and the Marine Corps requested a total budget of $206B for fiscal year 2020. The Navy™s FY 2020 budget request includes $20.4B in research, development, test and evaluation funds for several programs: unmanned surface vessels and unmanned underwater vehicles; dir...
The North American arm of Serco Group secured a potential $82.3M task order to deploy, manage and sustain a new civil engineering information technology platform for the U.S. Air Force. Serco Inc. will help the service branch implement the IBM-built (NYSE: IBM) TRIRIGA integrated workplace management system as part of the task order awarded und...
Shad Imam, head of federal pre-sales at MuleSoft, has said agencies seeking to meet changing customer demands should advance connectivity using application programming interfaces. œAPIs are quickly becoming core building blocks for digital transformation because they make systems easy to access and allow data to be decoupled from complex underl...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) secured a potential 10-year, $250M contract to provide Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit services to domestic and international defense customers. The company’s defense, space and security business will perform JDAM/Laser JDAM sustainment, aircraft integration and technical support, the Department of Defense said Mond...
On Thursday, March 28th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. for the Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum.  Following a thoughtful keynote address from John Sanders, chief operating officer of U.S. Customs and Border Protectio...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) saw its full fiscal year 2019 revenue grow 5 percent to $4.66B and ended the year with an estimated total backlog of $13.8B of which $2.8B was funded. SAIC said Thursday it recorded $220M in FY 2019 operating income with diluted earnings per share of $3.11, net income of...
General Electric (NYSE: GE) secured a potential five-year, $343.5M contract for repair, replacement and program support work on engine components of the U.S. Navy™s F/A-18 A to D aircraft variants. The performance-based logistics requirements contract has a $77.6M base value for initial work that runs through March 2020, the Department of Defen...
A federal official responsible for border security discussed how his private sector experience prepared him to manage the increasing demands of an agency that operates under close scrutiny during the 3rd Annual Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. John Sanders, chief operating officer of the U.S. Cu...
