Randall Wotring, president of AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) technical and operational services business, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based engineering services contractor in a move that takes effect July 1. He will succeed Stephen Kadenacy, who will step down as COO and president of AECOM after a 10-yea...
John Celli, president of SSL (Space Systems Loral,) will be stepping down after serving the satellites and spacecraft systems company for 36 years, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA), announced Wednesday. Dario Zamarian has been appointed Group President and Paul Estey has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief O...
Engility (NYSE: EGL) has received a potential five-year, $119 million contract to support a national-level logistics enterprise resource planning system used at various U.S. Army and Defense Department facilities. The company said Wednesday it will provide subject matter expertise, administrative support, program and product managemen...
The State Department has approved Australia’s request to buy up to five units of modified Gulfstream G550 aircraft from the U.S. under a potential $1.3 billion foreign military sales agreement. Australia seeks to procure Gulfstream G550 planes that have been modified to integrate airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconna...
The State Department has cleared a potential $366.2 million foreign military sale of a Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) transport aircraft, equipment and support services to India. India ordered an additional C-17 Globemaster III aircraft equipped with four turbofan F-117-PW-100 engines, one AN/AAR-47 missile warning system and one AN/APX-119 ident...
Defense contractors will soon be held to the same cybersecurity standards that the Defense Department has implemented in recent years, according to a top IT official at the Pentagon. œThe cyberthreat is not going away; we have to defend our networks and systems, and you™re part of that defense, acting DOD CIO John Zangardi said...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential $1.17 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to engineer sonar technology under the Technical Insertion 18-20 Acoustic Rapid Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion program. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract with an initial value of $130.8 million covers engineering development suppor...
Julie Xiang, former federal sales manager at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been named vice president of sales at cybersecurity and information technology services provider Merlin International. Merlin said Monday she has more than 16 years of IT sales and sales management experience with a primary focus on the government healthcare market. Xiang sa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide technical, functional, analytical, infrastructure and operations support to a Joint Staff J6 team under a potential $18 million task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday ...
David Dacquino, senior vice president of defense business at Serco Group‘s Americas division, has been promoted to chief executive in a move that takes effect in mid-2017. The more than three-decade industry veteran will succeed Dan Allen, who announced in February his plans to retire after nearly four years as chairma...
