TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 12, 2018 — EY has hired former Treasury Department official James Mackie as co-director of the professional services company’s quantitative economics and statistics group, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Mackie, who previously served as director of Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis, brings 30 years of ex...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has agreed to acquire CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) for approximately $9.6 billion in a move to form a combined information technology platforms provider in the government IT services sector. General Dynamics said Monday it will pay $40.75 in cash for each share of CSRA stock and assume $2.8 billion in net debt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUiicFHlWjQ The growing complexity of space operations coupled with an increased need for timely decisions demands innovative approaches to battle management command and control (BMC2) technologies. To help ensure future U.S. technological and strategic superiority, DARPA™s Hallmark program seeks to develop revol...
Weekly Roundup February 5 – February 9, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes Government Executives Outpace GovCon Counterparts In Wash100 Popular Vote Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO The Wash100 voting has been open for a little over two weeks now, and the preliminary results of the popular vote are sh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 9, 2018 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has set the launch of the fifth batch of Iridium NEXT satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 18 to bring the constellation to 50 units in orbit, ExecutiveBiz reported. The company said the rocket will use the same first stage as the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7nxTPyaeBw PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 20, 2018) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) perform a passing exercise in the Pacific Ocean. The Carl Vinson Strike Group is operating in the Pacific as part of a regularly scheduled deployment. (U.S. Navy Vide...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 8, 2018 ” A subsidiary of ViON has unveiled a new platform-as-a-service product that works to secure controlled unclassified information in efforts to facilitate contractor compliance with government standards in cybersecurity, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. ViON’s Ascolta company said Tuesday the cloud...
David Myers, former president and CEO of DataPath, has been named president of the communications sector at Peraton in a move slated to take effect Feb. 20. He will be responsible for developing and implementing strategy within Peraton’s sector that offers communications services to the defense, intelligence and civilian markets, the comp...
REAN Cloud has secured a potential five-year, $950 million contract from the Defense Department to provide cloud platforms and services to agencies within DoD. The award is a production œother transaction contract based on a prototype cloud migration and infrastructure assessment project REAN Cloud completed for the U.S. Transportation Command ...
The U.S. Army has awarded Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense business a potential $476 million contract to manufacture medium tactical vehicles. Oshkosh Defense will build the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles A2 variant under the a firm-fixed-price requirements contract with an ordering period of seven years, the company said Wednesday. The...
