The General Services Administration has added approximately 500 small businesses to a list of contractors that won positions on the agency’s 8(a)Â Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II open season contract. GSA said Thursday 8(a) STARS II is a governmentwide acquisition contract designed to provide federal agencies acc...
The U.S. and Qatar have signed a potential $12 billion deal to supply Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15QA fighter jets to the Arab country, Defense News reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the Defense Department said Defense Secretary James Mattis and Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatar™s defense affairs minister, signed a letter to facilitate the aircraft sal...
Jenette Ramos, formerly vice president and general manager of fabrication at Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) commercial airplanes business, has been named senior VP for supply and operations of the aerospace and defense contractor. The 29-year company veteran succeeds Pat Shanahan, who was nominated in March by the Trump administration for the deputy ...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential five-year, $404 million task order to help the U.S. Army‘s software engineering directorate deliver virtual, interactive and multimedia system engineering services to Defense Department components, military personnel and federal government agencies. SAIC s...
Weekly Roundup June 5 – June 9 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This past Wednesday, President Trump brought attention to his plan to overhaul the crumbling infrastructure of the U.S. During a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump called for bipartisan coope...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 9, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will supply instructors to support the Federal Protective Service National Academy’s National Weapons Detection Training Program under a $1.8 million task order from the General Services Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said June 1 ...
Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has joined Bain & Company as a special advisor in the consulting firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Bain said Thursday James will advise aerospace, defense and government services customers and work with the firm’s local leaders to establish relationships wit...
Christian Marrone, a CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) vice president and chief of staff, has been promoted to a senior VP role at the Falls Church, Virginia-based technology services contractor, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, Marrone is responsible for CSRA’s external relations function, strategy to strengthen relationshi...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to purchase Alexandria, Virginia-based Phase One Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand the global management consulting and professional services contractor’s Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) capabilities and cloud platforms for U.S. federal agencies. Accenture said Wednesday it will integ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9bol82HonQ This year’s ITEC took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the first time and the Dutch Ministry of Defence had a strong presence at the event. Next year, ITEC will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, for the first time. Daniel Mortimer, event director at Clarion, talks to Shephard about feedbac...
