TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” American Systems has received a Maturity Level 3 quality appraisal under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the CMMI-DEV 1.3 appraisal covers process management, engineering, project ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded CH2M Hill a potential five-year, $240 million contract to provide architect-engineering services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command‘s Atlantic area of responsibility. NAVFAC Atlantic awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process with three bids re...
NASA has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), Sierra Nevada and SpaceX a second round of potential multi-billion dollar contracts to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station through 2024 in support of efforts to end U.S. reliance on Russia for access to space by 2017, agency officials said Thursday. Each new Commercial Resupply...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” David Young, vice president of federal government sales at Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT), told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday he believes government agencies will transition to more service-level agreements and company-owned/company-operated network environments. “It is inte...
Anne Altman, general manager of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) U.S. federal and government industries, has confirmed her retirement after almost 30 years of work on both private and public sector programs, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Meredith Somers writes Sam Gordy, integrated systems group president at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), will join IBM on Jan...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 13, 2016 ” Bob Fortna, vice president of Juniper Networks‘ federal defense sector (NYSE: JNPR), said federal agencies can adopt five key elements to streamline data center operations in order to meet future demands, Executive Gov reported Tuesday. Fortna wrote in a guest piece published Monday on ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 13, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, believes an ongoing collaborative program between the company, the Defense Department and other satellite operators will help boost commercial-military space operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) let NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Eric Boe do a trial run of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft using company-built training devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Boeing said Thursday these devices are equipped with CST-100’s switches and display panels to prepare the...
Stanley Sims, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former director of the Defense Security Service, has been appointed chief security officer at CGI (NYSE: GIB). He joins the company after more than 30 years of federal and military service and will oversee programs to secure the company’s physical and cyber infrastructure in his new ...
Peter Blocker, former vice president of the integrated mission systems business unit at Sierra Nevada, has joined MCR Federal as vice president for the latter company™s defense sector business in the U.S. Southeast region. Blocker will oversee MCR™s office in Huntsville, Alabama and work with defense sector clients in Florida, Georgia and ...
