Shannon Hines, former staff director for the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been named Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) upcoming senior vice president of government affairs and Washington operations. Textron said Tuesday she will oversee various government affairs activities, with a focus on connecting with federal agencies, legislative and executi...
As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly identified more contagious Omicron variant is posing new challenges for the U.S. health care system and the nation’s pandemic preparedness and response capabilities. Now, the federal government aims to leverage commercial partnerships, more robust funding, adapted legislati...
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division are seeking public comments as they work to update federal guidelines on mergers to better identify and prevent anticompetitive transactions. “Illegal mergers can inflict a host of harms, from higher prices and lower wages to diminished opportunity, reduced innovatio...
GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum where distinguished defense agency and private sector leaders talked about technology procurement efforts, infrastructural priorities, modernization strategies and cultural shifts affecting how Defense Department agencies, military service branches and ...
The top official in charge of the Department of Defense organization responsible for commercial technology deployments to the U.S. military will deliver a closing keynote address to the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Michael Brown, a former Symantec CEO, assumed the director po...
Thomas Thebes, a nearly four-decade veteran of the defense and manufacturing industries, has been appointed chief financial officer at military equipment supplier HDT Global. He previously held financial leadership roles at various companies and taught finance-related lessons as an adjunct professor or a guest lecturer at multiple universities, HDT ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum, which gathered leading government agency and private sector officials for an exclusive discussion surrounding the most imperative modernization initiatives and urgent infrastructural needs that are influencing defense agencies’ s...
John Dillon, a national security intelligence leader, has joined Herndon, Virginia-based technology services contractor NetCentrics as senior vice president of business development. He will bring to the role more than three decades of experience in intelligence, special operations, intelligence analysis and counterintelligence and help the company p...
Michael Huffman, formerly vice president of business development at cBEYONData, took on a new role as chief growth officer of the Lorton Virginia-based business intelligence and data analytics provider. Huffman will be responsible for initiatives to capture business opportunities, expand market visibility and identify potential services to support f...
Godspeed Capital Management has acquired Exceptional Software Strategies in a strategy to expand the private equity firm’s newly created cybersecurity and information technology platform that will focus on supporting defense and intelligence customers. Godspeed did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction and the company said Thursd...
