Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis has agreed to resign from his board position at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and divest all of his business holdings with the company if the Senate confirms him as the next leader of the Defense Department, Politico reported Saturday. Jeremy Herb and Connor O™Brien write Mattis, who ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Janus Global Operations has destroyed 1, 246 landmines and other unexploded ordnance across the Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniyah provinces of Kurdistan in Iraq as part of a demining project with the Iraqi-Kurdistan Mine Action Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said D...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” Professional Services Council has appointed Carey Smith, president of Parsons‘ federal business unit, to be the secretary of the trade association’s board of directors, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. Smith will also continue to serve as a member of PSC’s executive committee for anot...
Gary Wang, a former chief technology officer at IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Peter O’Donoghue, a former vice president at CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), will serve as VPs within Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal business. Wang will oversee Unisys Federal‘s cloud-related products as VP for cloud and infrastructure services while O...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has secured a potential seven-year, $26.6 million contract from the U.S. Senate’s sergeant-at-arms office to deploy, sustain, manage and operate a unified communications-as-a-service platform at 450 senate offices across 50 states, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company s...
NTT Data (NYSE: NTT) has landed a five-year, $85 million contract to continue to provide independent verification and validation services to the Customs and Border Protection‘s office of acquisition. The company said Tuesday it will independently verify and validate whether border management products and systems ...
Teresa Covington, who held the interim chief financial officer role between Feb. 5, 2015 and July 7, 2015 at AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV), has been appointed CFO on a full-time basis at the unmanned aircraft systems manufacturer. AeroVironment said Tuesday Covington will succeed Raymond Cook, who will resign as senior ...
December 12 – December 16, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week reminded us that change is always a constant in the government contracting arena as we learned of an impending relocation by a large defense contractor and the return of a veteran GovCon...
Tony Mathis, a senior account executive at General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation segment, has been promoted to serve as vice president and general manager of GE Aviation’s military systems organization. Visal Leng was also named Asia Pacific president and CEO of GE’s oil and gas business as Jennifer Waldo...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will shift the headquarters of its $31 billion defense segment from the St. Louis metropolitan region to the Washington, D.C. area effective Jan. 3, 2017 for top executives to gain closer proximity with government customers, a company spokesperson has confirmed to GovCon Wire. Close to a dozen senior execut...
