Bruce Samuelsen, formerly special adviser to Alion Science and Technology CEO Bahman Atefi, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the McLean, Virginia-based government technology and engineering services contractor. Alion Science said Wednesday Samuelsen joined the company upon its acquisition of naval architecture firm ...
November 21 – November 23, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Interest rates are all but certain to go up in December and one large defense contractor has seemingly gotten ahead of the game to make one more big buy before the Federal Reserve moves....
Carey Smith, former president of Honeywell‘s (NYSE: HON) defense and space business, has joined Parsons Corp. as president of the Pasadena, Calif.-based engineering and infrastructure services contractor’s U.S. federal business unit. Parsons said Tuesday Tom Roell will return to his full-time post as vice chairman and chief risk adviser ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 ” The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has awarded an ASRC Federal business unit a potential five-year, $35 million contract to provide engineering support for the agency’s Alaska-based satellite operations facility, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ASRC Federal Technical Services will pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NVIDIA have collaborated to develop a new machine learning tool that will work to train computers to learn in a human-like manner and boost their overall operational speed, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. IBM PowerAI is designed to operate with NVIDIA’s NVL...
Pat Goggin, vice president of airplane programs engineering at Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) commercial airplanes unit, has been promoted to president of the company™s defense, space and security development organization. Boeing said Friday the 29-year company veteran will succeed Jim O™Neill, who will retire in 2017 after more than 30 ye...
NASA has awarded nine companies indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth a total of $49.5 million over five years for specialized engineering, aeronautics and manufacturing support services to the Johnson Space Center’s flight operations directorate. The space agency said Friday task orders encompass aerostructura...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Absolute Business Solutions Corp. have awarded Fulcrum separate subcontracts in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Fulcrum said the subcontracts work to assist Booz Allen in its work under DIA’...
J.F. Taylor has won a potential $75.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support the integrated combat environment and battlespace modeling and simulation units of the the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The military branch received two offers for the small business set-aside contract thro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” CSRA will advise the Customs and Border Protection on equipment options and deployment methods to help prevent illegal trade and trade activities under a three-year, $45 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. CSRA said Monday it will work with the agency’s systems en...
