Wendy Masiello, former director of the Defense Contract Management Agency and a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, has joined the board of directors at KBR (NYSE: KBR). KBR said Thursday Masiello will serve on the board’s audit and environment, health, safety, security and social responsibility committees. The 36-year Air Force ve...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential $727.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft fleets of Afghanistan’s air force and special mission wing. The Army obligated $126.7 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Thursday. Leido...
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 22, 2017) A harpoon missile launches from the missile deck of the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) off the coast of Guam. Coronado is on a rotational deployment in U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, patrolling the region’s littorals and working hull-to-hull with partner navies to provide U.S. 7th Fleet...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed to offer information technology training to military service members transitioning to civilian life, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. CompTIA said Tuesday the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy will accept the o...
Jacobs Engineering Group‘s (NYSE: JEC) technology business unit has received a potential eight-year, $1.1 billion contract from NASA to perform a range of engineering and scientific services in support of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Michoud Assembly Facility. NASA said Thursday the Engineering Services and Sci...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 23, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) CEO Roger Krone has said the company is working with nonprofit organizations such as the Chris Atwood Foundation and government units such as the Drug Enforcement Agency in efforts to address the issue of opioid drug abuse, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Krone, an ind...
Biniam Gebre, formerly a partner at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, has been named managing director of the management consulting group within Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business. Accenture said Wednesday Gebre has previously worked with multiple agencies and financial institutions to help them increase operati...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has rounded out its list of speakers for the 2017 Army Forum, adding Brigadier General Anthony Potts list of panelists. One of the top priorities for the Army is modernization, particularly in regards to its information technology ca...
Don Godwin, chief financial officer of Hitachi Data Systems‘ federal business, will officially join Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) on Sept. 5 as CFO and vice president of business management at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will bring more than 20 years of finance and business managem...
CGI™s (NYSE: GIB) federal business, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have won spots on a Social Security Administration contract to provide information technology services. A FedBizOpps notice published Monday says the potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers IT services ...
