L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will deliver night vision goggles to the U.S. Army under a $100 million order. The company said Thursday its Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular system is designed to improve situational awareness and enhance soldier protection and mobility by directly delivering battlefield imagery and data to warfighters. L...
Shaun Bierweiler, formerly senior vice president of public sector at Riverbed Technology, has elevated to the role of chief revenue officer of the San Francisco-based information technology company. Bierweiler disclosed his promotion in a LinkedIn job update posted Wednesday. In October 2020, he joined Riverbed from Cloudera, where he spent four yea...
Renee McPherson, director of the South Central Climate Adaptation Science at University of Oklahoma, will keynote a Sept. 22 virtual event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss one of the most important environmental issues facing our planet. Aside from her role at the SC CASC, McPherson also serves as associate professor of geography...
Anthology and Blackboard have agreed to merge to establish a new education technology software and platforms provider to help education institutions accelerate transformation efforts and improve the learner experience. The combination is expected to conclude by the end of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, ...
Mike Madsen, deputy director and director of strategic engagement at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), was presented his first Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), during a recent visit by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. Executive Mosaic re...
Stewart Holmes, a senior vice president at Textron (NYSE: TXT), was selected to join Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and replace Mitch Waldman, who is retiring from his role as chief of HII’s Washington operations, Defense Daily reported. Walman joined the shipbuilding company in March 2011 and has served as executive VP of governmen...
Government Executive Media Group has acquired 1105 Media’s Public Sector 360 group for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of decision-support tools and insights to defense, federal, state and local government markets. Troy Schneider, general manager of Public Sector 360, will join GovExec as GM of government technology b...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
Chris Soong, formerly the chief information officer of Alion Science and Technology, has been appointed to the same position at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division. HII added Soong to its executive team upon completion of the company’s $1.65 billion cash acquisition of Alion, the Virginia-based militar...
Granicus has acquired GovQA for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help government agency clients manage requests for public records and expand the capabilities of its Civic Engagement Platform designed to provide unified digital experiences to citizens. Woodridge, Illinois-based GovQA provides cloud-based automated workflow software meant to ...
