Weekly Roundup January 8 – January 12, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we™re going to take a look at some of the recent significant contract activity that occurred at the very end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. Recent contracts include:...
Shareholders at Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) have cleared a deal for United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) to acquire the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics contractor for approximately $30 billion. Holders of at least 72 percent of outstanding shares in Rockwell Collins as of record date voted to approve the transaction during the Thursday...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 11, 2018 ” Deloitte has hired James Turgal, former executive assistant director of FBI‘s information and technology branch, as managing director of the cyber risk services practice within the company’s risk and financial advisory unit, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said ...
The State Department has cleared Japan™s request to buy Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, related equipment and services from the U.S. government under a potential $133.3 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon™s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business and BAE Systems™ U.S. arm will serve as principal contractors for the proposed ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM5fteabEFo The FBI™s Hazardous Devices School at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama is the only facility in the country that trains and certifies the nation™s public safety bomb technicians. Full story: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/haza…...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 8, 2018 ” Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said that a “proactive” approach to cybersecurity can help government agencies detect and respond to threats faster and mitigate the effects of cyber attacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 27. Gongaware wrote in...
Erickson has appointed three executives to its leadership team in a move that takes effect immediately. Kevin Cochie, formerly vice president of Washington operations and special programs at ammunition and energetics products provider Nammo, will serve as VP and general manager of defense and national security at Erickson, the company said Friday. C...
Cummins (NYSE: CMI) has received a $257.6 million contract to provide new commercial, remanufactured and remanufactured conversion engines for multiple U.S. Army military vehicles. The Defense Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract is for the procurement of V903 Cummins series 600 and 675 horsepower diesel engines. V903 engin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Rmk61pckE In this episode of Voices from DARPA, physicist Rosa Alejandra œAle Lukaszew, a program manager who is just finishing her first year with the Agency™s Defense Sciences Office (DSO), recounts how her interest in quantum phenomena took root at the age of 10 when already she could write down the equ...
Weekly Roundup January 1 – January 5, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, let™s take a look at the first executive moves of 2018 and the closing executive moves of 2017. Recent executive moves include: Roger Mason joined Peraton as pres...
