October 10 – October 14, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson We have yet another player in the GovCon M&A scene in the form of the company whose satellites help governments and businesses around the world map every piece of planet Earth down to the fine...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 13, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has added military veterans John Allen and Samuel Locklear as well as Schafer CEO Michael Griffin as senior fellows, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The lab said Tuesday the senior fellows program aims to util...
Rodin Lyasoff, a former project executive at Airbus Group‘s A3 advanced projects and partnerships outpost in Silicon Valley, has been promoted to lead A3 as chief executive. He succeeds Paul Eremenko, who was appointed as the aerospace and defense contractor’s chief technology officer, Airbus said Tuesday. Lyasoff has&nb...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plunged 1 percent Tuesday to post its worst one-day performance in two months with all 30 companies in red at the close as U.S. financial markets entered sell-off mode on investor worries over dim third quarter corporate earnings and the fast pace of inflation. Six of the GovCon Index’s 10 l...
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has appointed new board of directors and senior executives in support of the implementation of the company™s U.S. Access Plan strategy. Howard Lance, president and CEO of MDA, said in a statement released Monday the firm™s U.S. Access Plan seeks to pursue government contracts in order to provide informat...
Randy Wotring, former president of the management services segment at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has been appointed to a newly-created role of president of technical and operational services in a move that takes effect immediately. AECOM said Thursday that transition will also see John Vollmer, previously executive vice president an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 15, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has concluded the four-day preliminary design review on three Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft in collaboration with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Monday it reviewed the des...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” In-Q-Tel and Zoomdata have partnered to address the big data management requirements of the intelligence community using the latter’s visual analytics platform under a new strategic investment and technology agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The agreement works to up...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $114.3 million extension on the company’s Mission Operations, Systems Engineering, and Software II contract with NASA to continue to maintain a space observatory currently in low-Earth orbit. NASA said Thursday that Lockheed’s space systems segment will support the H...
REI Systems has appointed Shyam Salona, a co-founder and former executive vice president and chief technology officer, as its new CEO. The company said Tuesday Salona will succeed fellow co-founder and former CEO Veer Bhartiya, who will remain at REI as executive chairman. “I am excited to take on this new role within our compan...
