Akima President and CEO Bill Monet accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson at Akima’s offices in Herndon, Virginia last week. The Wash100 Award annually recognizes the top 100 most influential and impactful executives working in the federal government and the government contracting industry. These executives of ...
A report by financial services company Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) indicates that 79 mergers and acquisitions occurred in the defense and government market during the second quarter of 2024, a 6.7 percent increase from the prior-year period. The June report was issued by Raymond James’ defense and government investment banking team, where 2024 W...
Concept Plus has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Gary Sofo as senior vice president and sector general manager and Joshua Temkin as VP and chief architect to advance the delivery of tech platforms and services to customers in the health care and federal civilian sectors. In a June 3 news release, the...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index posted its second back-to-back weekly loss this year following three significant drops this week. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, declined 0.37% before the weekend to $4,953.15 for a 0.92% week-on-week loss. Wall Street also registered a weekly loss, led by Nasdaq ...
Kelli Murphy, formerly a senior principal for business development at Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC), has joined Pyramid Systems as vice president of client account delivery. She will lead the company’s Department of Homeland Security portfolio and oversee strategic growth initiatives, service delivery operations, cont...
Amazon Web Services has secured a $114.5 million contract from Army Contracting Command–Rock Island to provide cloud services at Impact Level 6 to the Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. A notice posted on SAM.gov states that the contract was awarded under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract vehicle to enable ECMA to provide conti...
A mechanical engineer by training, Scott Aken has navigated a fascinating route to his current role as president and CEO of network intelligence provider Axellio. He began his career in the commercial sector during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, where he worked for the sole domain name company. Cybercriminals who made attempts on...
The FBI has released the list of 95 awardees on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The bureau first announced the award of the ITSSS-2 BPA on May 24 in a SAM.gov notice. According to the award notice, 31 large companies and 64...
Aaron Weis, managing director of technology at Google Public Sector, received his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO and Wash100 Founder Jim Garrettson. The annual Wash100 Award shines a light on government contracting industry executives who have consistently exhibited top-notch leadership skills. Wash100 winner...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $1.93 billion contract modification to produce and deliver high mobility artillery rocket system launchers to the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command-Redstone is the contracting activity and will determine work locations and funding upon the issuance of individual contract orders, the Department of Defense s...
