Teledyne FLIR has appointed JihFen Lei, former principal deputy and acting director of research and engineering at the Defense Department, as vice president and general manager of the company’s surveillance business, Politico reported Monday. Her appointment comes about two months after Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) acquired FLIR Systems. ...
Elinor Damo, formerly a director at Peraton, has joined the federal business of CGI (NYSE GIB) as vice president for consulting services. Damo announced her new role in a LinkedIn post and said that she will focus on CGI Federal’s Department of Homeland Security customers. She joined Peraton after its private-equity owner, Veritas Capital, acq...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 6th Annual Army Forum on Thursday to bring together some of the most notable federal and industry leaders to discuss how the Army will drive future capabilities to meet the demand and speed of the digital battlefield. Christopher Lowman, senior official performing the duties of the U.S. Army undersecretary,...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer for Technomile, published his first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. In his first article of a two-part feature, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an informative guide into the contract lifecycle management of contract professionals in the federal landscape today while also...
Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
Mara Elizabeth Karlin, principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs at the Defense Department, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as DOD’s assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilties. Senators approved the nomination by voice vote Monday, following a series of congressional events that took place since ...
Crowley‘s government services business will continue to help U.S. Transportation Command coordinate surface freight activity for two Defense Department agencies under a one-year, $453 million contract modification. The company will perform work for the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Contract Management Agency through July 31, 2022, as pa...
McAfee‘s (Nasdaq: MCFE) enterprise business and FCN will provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with cybersecurity tools and expertise under a five-year, $281 million contract to support the agency’s compliance with a recent executive order on strengthening the federal government’s defenses against malicious cyber campaigns. Th...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), on Tuesday during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is an annual honor given to the elite members of the GovCon...
Washington, D.C.-based technology company Babel Street has appointed former senior government officials Robert Ashley, David Glaser, Ellen McCarthy and Harry Wetherbee to its newly formed board of advisers. They will advise Babel Street’s leadership team on approaches to help customers apply its artificial intelligence-based analytics platform...
