Xavier Beale, vice president of trades at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division, will transition to a new role that expands the scope of his current work to include human resources responsibilities. HII said Wednesday Beale will take over the Newport News HR leadership role from Susan Jacobs, who will jo...
Two companies have won contracts worth $469 million combined to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency transport commodities for disaster response and recovery operations in the Hawaii Islands. FEMA awarded $279.2 million to Matson Logistics and $189.8 million Ceva Freight to support the agency’s Resource and Capability Transportation Su...
Accenture Federal Services CEO John Goodman has been named a recipient of the Wash100 Award for 2022, the fifth consecutive year that he has been selected to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of leaders who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. Visit Wash100.com today to cast a vote for Goodman as one of...
Stu Whitehead, deputy director for cyber and C4 integration at the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J6 directorate, will keynote a Potomac Officers Club forum on April 7 to discuss the importance of data exchange between U.S. defense agencies and their mission partners. Whitehead was appointed to his current position in April 2012 and oversees joint...
Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) saw its full 2021 revenue increase 28 percent to $1.78 billion and reported $419.4 million in sales for the fourth quarter of 2021, up 18 percent from the prior-year period. The Colorado Springs, Colorado-based government services contractor said Monday it ended the year with a total backlog of $5 billion, of which...
Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHalo, has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, the most prestigious and acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his innovation centric leadership approach that drives company growth and technology capabilities for the company’s customers as well as U.S. warfighters across our nation’s ...
Vertex Aerospace updated its website and corporate identity imagery and changed its name to The Vertex Company after it closed the acquisition of Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) defense training and mission critical solutions business on Dec. 6. Ed Boyington, president and CEO of The Vertex Company, said in a statement published Friday the new ...
In recent months, the Department of Defense has placed greater emphasis and importance on artificial intelligence. The technology has been included on the White House’s critical and emerging technologies list, and the department in December created a new position meant to oversee artificial intelligence, digital-focused initiatives and data. Now...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has closed its approximately $19.7 billion cash acquisition of artificial intelligence company Nuance Communications as both companies aim to offer cloud-based AI platforms. Microsoft first announced the $56-per-share deal in April last year and the multinational technology company said Friday that Mark Benjamin will continu...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 63 companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.7 million contract to provide rapid development and prototyping and systems integration support to help the military branch meet new and emerging requirements and advance the growth of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s services portfolio at Webster O...
