Michael Link, a former senior vice president from global marketing research firm Nielsen, has joined Bethesda, Maryland-based services contractor Abt Associates as president and CEO of its public policy research subsidiary Abt SRBI, the parent company said Monday. Silver Spring-headquartered Abt SRBI conducts opinion surveys and other...
TYSONS CORNER, VA., March 31, 2016 – The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic “ has finalized its panel for the Third Annual Intel Summit. The Summit™s keynote speakers are Rick Ledgett (NSA) and Nicholas Rasmussen (ODNI) and the panelists are Jason Matheny (IARPA/ODNI), Doug Wolfe (CIA) and Ardisson...
The Department of Health and Human Services has chosen Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) to offer agency personnel access to the company’s customer relationship management tools under a potential $100 million blanket purchase agreement. Salesforce said Wednesday the BPA serves as a vehicle for HHS operating divisions to order Salesf...
Dewey Houck, Boeing (NYSE:BA) chief data analytics officer for the defense segment, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his contributions in the cyber and data analytics field. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leaders selected by Executive Mo...
The GovCon Index stumbled from the open to close at a loss of 0.279 points to 75.052 as U.S. stock declines mirrored a fall in commodities such as oil and investors continued to speculate over when the next interest rate increases could occur. Los Angeles-based health insurance provider Health Net (NYSE: HNT) led Index gainers at 3.67 ...
Finmeccanica has received a potential $335 million contract from Italy’s ministry of defense for the addition of nine Aermacchi M-346 aircraft to be operated by that country’s air force. With the contract, Italy increased its order of M-346 aircraft to 18 with deliveries scheduled to start within this y...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 22, 2016 — Stan Ratcliffe, president of NCR‘s (NYSE: NCR) government systems segment,  has said the reuse and repurposing of existing technologies can drive efforts to achieve the “to be” state in terms of having technology that supports self-service transactions, ExecutiveBiz reported M...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.32 billion contract to help maintain amphibious warfare and surface combatant ships that dock in San Diego. The Defense Department said Wednesday that BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) unit NASSCO and Continental Maritime of San Diego, a subsidia...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 16, 2016 — Tony Frazier, DigitalGlobe senior vice president for government solutions business, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of most influential leaders for his work in open source partnership. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leader...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell‘s federal systems business, has said a “future-ready” organization will utilize employee engagement to drive the implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, Executive Gov reported March 3. Har...
