Cal Shintani, formerly chief growth officer of Oceus Networks and a 30-year government information technology veteran, has been appointed to the same position at citizen experience IT company HighPoint Global. HighPoint said Tuesday he will oversee capture, business development, merger-and-acquisition and growth initiatives at the Reston, Virgi...
A Russian Su-27 jet with air-to-air missiles under its wings was “provocative” and flew “erratically,” approaching “rapidly” within five feet of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 recon jet “rapidly,” officials told Fox News. “The incident comes one day after the Russian Defense Ministry said it would treat...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $195 million contract extension to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s unmanned aircraft systems. Insitu will continue its ISR support for the Mid-Endurance UAS 1.5-B platform t...
Trevor DeLew, head of federal at Qualtrics, and Bobbie Browning, chief federal strategist at the company, have said federal agencies should know and understand citizen experiences to change the way they deliver services to the public. DeLew and Browning wrote that agencies should œrecognize the role their reputation plays in mission achievement...
The Week’s Top GovCon News Stories View this email in your browser Weekly Roundup June 12 – June 16 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Many agencies, companies, organizations and individuals were caught off-guard by the recent rise in cyber crime. Mali...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential two-year, $471.7 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture full-rate production 12 Multiple Launch Rocket System components for France, Germany, Finland and Singapore. Lockheed™s missile and fire control business will deliver 2,868 guided MLRS al...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the pending acquisition by parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) would enable MDA to build up support for intelligence and d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Riverbed Technology has showcased its software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms for the cloud at Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) Public Sector Summit held this week in Washington, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Included in Riverbed’s exhibit were the St...
Experts at a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing warned lawmakers Tuesday that Chinese government hackers appear to be once again targeting private U.S. companies and organizations. “Anecdotally, there appears to be a re-emergence of economic-related espionage by Chinese hackers, reported Samantha Ravich, an ...
The U.S. and Qatar have signed a potential $12 billion deal to supply Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15QA fighter jets to the Arab country, Defense News reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the Defense Department said Defense Secretary James Mattis and Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatar™s defense affairs minister, signed a letter to facilitate the aircraft sal...
