Four companies have received separate contracts from the Customs and Border Protection to build prototypes of the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall using materials other than concrete. CBP said Thursday agency officials will meet with the four awardees – Caddell Construction, ELTA North America, KWR Construction and W.G. Yates &a...
NORFOLK, Va. (Sept. 7, 2017) Supplies and equipment are loaded onto the Amphibious Assault Ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7). The ship is being prepared to be positioned off the southern coast of the United States in support of U.S. Fleet Forces Command tasking. The preparations ensure Iwo Jima is ready to respond to any...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2017 ” Altamira Technologies has received recognition from the National Contract Management Association for its initiatives that work to encourage contract management employee efforts toward certification, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the NCMA Certification Support...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 7, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has added Major General David D. Thompson as the Keynote Speaker for the 2017 Space: Innovations, Programs and Policies Summit. A new Space Race is brewing and the United States is determined to retain its position as a...
Scott Briggs, formerly director of business development at ViON, has joined Belcan as senior vice president of government strategic business unit under the Cincinnati, Ohio-based engineering and technical recruiting firm™s government services segment. Briggs will oversee the segment™s engineering, scientific and technical groups to facilit...
Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) has established an advisory group that will offer recommendations as the Kansas City, Missouri-based health information technology provider supports the Department of Veterans Affairs in its Electronic Health Record Modernization initiative. Bob Kerrey, former U.S. senator and Nebraska governor, will lead the company™s VA ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 6, 2017 ” Space Systems Loral is one of 10 companies that NASA has picked to help advance space technologies in support of future commercial and government space missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NASA said Friday the collaborative partnership program seeks to engage industry to help address potential re...
Bob Stevens, vice president of federal systems at San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, has said an April 2017 study released by the Department of Homeland Security indicates that threats posed by federal agencies™ use of smartphones and other mobile devices to government data are present across all areas of the mobile ecosystem. St...
SILSBEE, Texas (Sept. 2, 2017) – A detachment from the Vanguard of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 14 transports thousands of Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MREs) and bottled water from Beaumont to Silsbee in support of Hurricane Harvey relief. U.S. Fleet Forces Command sent personnel and assets to bolster Northern Command’s support o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 5, 2017 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has collaborated with NASA to check the capability of a robotic platform that will work to support the assembly of space structures in the future as part of a ground demonstration at the Langley Research Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The space agency said Thursday&nbs...
