Karen Forgy Hicks, formerly vice president and chief administration officer at Secure Mission Solutions, has been hired as executive vice president of operations at Siteworx. Hicks will be responsible for the firm’s daily operations, internal processes and team performance to drive customer service, Siteworx said Tuesday. Ken Quaglio, S...
The U.S. Army is looking at how contractors spend government-issued funds for research-and-development programs in order to better understand where industry focuses its R&D efforts, the branch’s lead acquisition executive said Wednesday. Katrina McFarland told an audience at a Potomac Officers Club-hosted event in Falls...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said satellite communications resilience is centered on the diversity, distribution and protection of space assets, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Space News article published March 28 that...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has partnered with World Wide Technology to provide enterprise data storage services to the Defense Information Systems Agency under a $427 million contract awarded to WWT, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. WWT said April 13 the Enterprise Storage Services I...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Earl Matthews, vice president of U.S. public sector enterprise security solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said organizations should aim to develop a risk-aware culture to support cybersecurity efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GCN reported April 13 Matthews told hi...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) — one of 30 companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported first quarter revenue that topped Wall Street’s expectations to snap a streak of eight straight quarters of sales below analyst outlooks. The Providence, R.I.-based defense and industrial conglomerate said first quarter rev...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has been awarded a three-year, $67 million contract to design and build electric propulsion technology for use in NASA‘s deep-space exploration missions. The company will help develop a propulsion system that will comprise a thruster, a power processing unit, an electrical harness and a ...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 19, 2016 — David Ramirez, FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE) president of the global government business, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his contributions in global sales strategy. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and p...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 19, 2016 — Susan Penfield, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH), has been elected into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for her vision in encouraging teamwork between employees. The Wash100 is the premier group of pri...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) will provide mortar weapon systems and non-U.S. standard ammunition to the Defense Department under a $20 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the contract is a follow-on award to a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract tha...
