McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the remarks of Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, at a Defense Innovation Board meeting. Lord, a 2019 Wash100 recipient, discussed the need to bifurcate software development from hardware development and cited the Department of Defense’s...
Juliane Gallina, who currently leads key accounts at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) U.S. federal business, will assume the chief information officer role at the CIA on April 1, Federal Times reported Tuesday. She will succeed John Edwards, who will continue to serve as deputy chief operating officer at the agency. œWelcoming Juliane back to the agency...
McAleese & Associates has released a report on a speech by Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, at the Defense Program Conference held Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Roper said the service is accelerating work on hypersonics and noted about Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) involvement in th...
McAleese and Associates has released a report on Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) 2019 priorities as discussed by Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Possenriede at a JP Morgan conference on Thursday. Some of the priorities mentioned include the F-35 fighter aircraft program; missiles and fire control sector; hypersonics; and the restart of the F-16 j...
McAleese and Associates, a consulting firm, released a report on key takeaways from a discussion hosted by the Center for a New American Security with Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy and Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley of Army Futures Command on the service™s multidomain operations concept and modernization plans. Wesley discussed the development of the...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the speeches of Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Will Roper, the service™s acquisition chief, at an Air Force Association symposium that kicked off Thursday in Orlando, Fla. Wilson discussed the need for the service to dominate time, space and ...
On Tuesday, KBR revealed the company™s fourth quarter and financial results for fiscal 2018 and announced 31 percent organic growth in government services for the fourth consecutive quarter. In the fourth quarter, KBR had a revenue growth of 42 percent to $1.3B with diluted EPS of $0.31, an adjusted EPS of $0.39 and $129M in...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says BAE Systems™ U.S. electronic systems sector saw its 2018 sales rise 14 percent to $5.3B with 15.3 percent sector operating margin and operating profit of $809M. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote BAE™...
LJT & Associates has secured a potential $124.8M contract to help NASA manage exploration ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center. The company will provide business management, engineering, technical and administrative support to the ECS program under the cost-plus fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, NASA said Saturda...
On Wednesday, Feb. 13th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the Hilton in McLean, Va., for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Summit. Dana Deasy, the chief information officer for the Department of Defense and 2019 Wash100 award winner, delivered the event™s opening keynote address. The first p...
