Scott Bauguess, a 12-year veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined cryptocurrency exchange platform operator Coinbase as vice president of global regulatory policy. He announced his new role Monday in a LinkedIn post and shared that developments in the crypto ecosystem from a policy perspective encouraged him to become involve...
Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD) has closed its purchase of Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth approximately $35 billion, creating a new high-performance and adaptive computing company with a combined portfolio of field programmable gate arrays, central processing units, adaptive SoCs and graphic processing units. The acquisition of Xilinx will e...
Engineering services provider WSP has acquired Washington, D.C.-based Climate Finance Advisors in a move to grow WSP’s presence in the U.S. climate finance and environmental services market. CFA will operate under WSP USA’s climate, resilience and sustainability group and the combined organization aims to help clients manage climate-related ...
Clara Conti, vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, recently took part in a Q&A session with GovCon Wire to discuss her background in the public sector market and how it led to her appointment with Red Hat. Conti also discussed why...
Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services, has been selected to the 2022 edition of the Wash100, the seventh time he’s won the prestigious award in the nine-year history of Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of executives with staying power and influence in the government contracting arena. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson noted T...
Shareholders at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) approved Thursday the proposed combination with Amentum and both parties expect the transaction to close Tuesday, Feb. 15. Falls Church, Virginia-based PAE said Thursday holders of over 86 percent of its outstanding common stock were in favor of the merger and that all approvals needed to finalize the transaction ha...
The State Department has approved a potential sale to Indonesia of F-15 fighter aircraft built by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and associated equipment through an estimated $13.9 billion government-to-government agreement with the U.S. Indonesia’s foreign military sales request includes 36 F-15ID jets, 87 F110-GE-129 or F100-PW-229 engines, 92 embedded G...
Another week of voting for the 2022 Wash100 Award has passed and the ranking is sizzling with competition. You still have plenty of time–from now until April 30–to cast 10 votes for the executives you respect the most in the government, military and GovCon sectors. Visit Wash100.com right now to participate in Executive Mosaic’s most fun and...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $78 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide voice internet services to several unified combatant commands outside the continental U.S. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois is the contracting activity and received...
Alan Chvotkin, a partner at Nichols Liu, has published his most recent article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. Previously, GovCon Expert Alan Chvotkin compared and contrasted the FAR COVID Procurement Rule and the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard to ensure there’s an understanding between the two and their difference. I...
