O3b Networks has appointed Jack Deasy, a former Federal Communications Commission bureau manager and Latin American telecommunications specialist, as its vice president for the government solutions business. He will lead O3b’s initial technology implementations at government and humanitarian agencies, as well as its local and in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has hosted the Boot Campaign’s Pushups for Charity challenge at the company’s flagship store in New York as part of National Military Appreciation Month, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the challenge aims to raise awareness on milita...
Carahsoft Technology has won a potential $42 million contract to provide development, operational support and integration testing services for the U.S. Special Operations Command™s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone Metadata Catalog. USSOCOM received three offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity co...
SAS Institute has appointed J.R. Helmig to lead the company’s analytics strategy as chief analytics officer for the federal government business. The analytics firm said Wednesday Helmig will work to determine federal trends in analytics and sources of disruption, maintain public-private partnerships and suppo...
A team led by KeyLogic Systems has received a five-year, $112 million prime contract to provide mission execution and strategic analysis services to a U.S. Energy Department-run national laboratory that conducts research on energy and environmental technologies. KeyLogic said Tuesday it will support the National Energy Techn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2016 ” A BAE Systems report indicates that the cyber heist on Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is linked to the 2014 hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Reuters reported Friday that BAE Systems found a similarity in the malware used f...
Thales subsidiary Tampa Microwave has appointed Michael Munn and Harry Xenitelis as directors of business development for NATO and the U.S. Special Operations Command, respectively, as part of its expansion efforts in international satellite communications terminal and defense markets. Munn, formerly manager for special operations U.S. business at T...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured three U.S. Navy contracts with a potential value of $163 million in total for the repair coverage of 421 P-8A aircraft mission system and commercial components. The Defense Department said Monday two contracts require repair services for 217 mission system components, while the remaining contract cov...
The GovCon Index posted its second gain of more than a full point in three weeks Monday to close up 1.052 points — or 1.366 percent — to 78.090. Contractor stocks rode the wave of positivity in U.S. markets after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment arm disclosed its now-$1 billion ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2016 ” Angela Messer, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has said collaboration between employees with different specializations works to drive the company’s cyber practice, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. She told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Thursd...
