TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said satellite communications resilience is centered on the diversity, distribution and protection of space assets, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Space News article published March 28 that...
Greg Godbout, chief technology officer and U.S. digital services lead at the Environmental Protection Agency, will join cBrain™s international team effective May 1. Godbout will work to introduce updates to the F2 platform and help the Denmark-based software company expand into the U.S. market, cBrain said Tuesday. The cBrain F2 autom...
Ted Diacoumis, formerly vice president of application services at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has joined information technology provider Merlin International as its new vice president of federal civilian programs. Diacoumis brings more than 20 years of experience in commercial and government contracting, with emphasis on IT, software development and sy...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has been awarded a three-year, $67 million contract to design and build electric propulsion technology for use in NASA‘s deep-space exploration missions. The company will help develop a propulsion system that will comprise a thruster, a power processing unit, an electrical harness and a ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2016 ” John Kendall, Unisys (NYSE: UIS) director of public sector and security programs for the Asia-Pacific region, has said iris scanning technology can help border security agents monitor people who enter the U.S., ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Kendall wrote in a blog post published Friday that agents c...
John Johns, a former vice president from Six3 Systems and business development executive at other GovCon companies, has joined Hanover, Md.-based cyber and geospatial services company KEYW Corp. (Nasdaq: KEYW) as vice president of BD and account executive for national agencies. KEYW said Tuesday it appointed the 25-year...
Mitel (Nasdaq: MITL) has agreed to purchase Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) for approximately $1.96 billion in cash and stock as both companies seek to establish a business that will offer communications and collaboration systems to enterprise customers. Both companies expect to close the acquisition in the third quarter of 2016 and create a combin...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has appointed Firat Gezen, formerly chief operating officer of its ordnance and tactical systems arm, as the unit’s president following the retirement of Michael Wilson. The company said Friday Gezen, who was also elected as corporate vice president, will assume his new role on May 1 and will report t...
The GovCon Index held against larger trends in U.S. financial markets Friday with a gain of 0.386 points to 75.692 as declines by energy and technology shares weighed on the bellwether S&P 500 composite index. Nine of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed companies posted gains with McKesson (NYSE: MCK) as that group’s largest po...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 15, 2016 ” SAP (NYSE: SAP) plans to award $2.4 million in grants to nonprofit organizations to promote computer science and other specializations in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math as part of the government’s Computer Science for All initiative, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The c...
