John Cuomo, former vice president and general manager of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) distribution services unit, has been elected as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors at Alexandria. Va.-based VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC). His appointment is effective April 15 and he will succeed Maurice Gauthier, who will step down next month after 11...
Sid Fuchs, former president and CEO of MacAulay-Brown, has been named chief operating officer of Alion Science and Technology. His appointment came seven months after Alion acquired MacB. The McLean, Va.-based engineering contractor said Monday he will oversee the firm’s businesses and programs in his new position. Alion CEO and Chairman Steve...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has closed its $50M cash acquisition of Tactical Communications Group, a Tewksbury, Mass.-based maker of tactical data link software for military communications platforms. “This acquisition yields significant opportunities for growth by enhancing our existing flight test instrumentation offering with complementar...
Defense engineering services contractor Gryphon Technologies has purchased Schafer from Belcan, a portfolio company of private investment firm AE Industrial Partners, for an undisclosed sum. Schafer provides engineering, scientific and technical services to military and intelligence agency clients in support of their national security effo...
The Department of Energy selected a team of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) to build and deliver a supercomputing system to DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago by 2021 under a contract worth more than $500M. DOE said Monday the Aurora machine is designed to integrate exaFLOP computational capacity and artificial intell...
East Coast Repair and Fabrication has landed a potential $376.9M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize, repair or maintain surface combatant and amphibious vessels stationed in Mayport, Fla. The IDIQ has an initial value of $212.9M and covers support for the naval warships of the service b...
Scientific Applications Research Associates has won a potential $100M contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop munition and integrated weapon systems. SARA will provide research, development, testing and demonstration support for the AFRL-led Golden Horde Science and Technology program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quant...
NASA plans to release in April a draft request for proposal for a potential 10-year, $6B follow-on contract vehicle for spacecraft systems and related services. The Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract will provide a means for NASA and other federal agencies to procure commercial offerings in support of science and technology missions, according...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Mark Gray, president and CEO of ASRC Federal, with his fifth Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Gray for driving organic growth and delivering exceptional services to ASRC Federal™s clients. We are honored to present the most coveted award in government contract...
Michael Conlin, the chief data officer of the Department of Defense will be featured as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Data Management Forum on April 10th at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. During the forum, GovCon leaders of the public and private sectors will address the great challenges that surrounding...
