TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” CAE plans to open a flight training facility at the King Fahad International Airport in Saudi Arabia through a partnership with the Saudi National Company of Aviation, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The SNCA-funded CAE Authorized Training Center in Dammam will offer commercial pilot li...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) board of directors has added former military intelligence officer Philip Bilden, who also helped establish private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, as a board member at the shipbuilding company, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. HII said Monday Bilde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” Comprehensive Health Services Inc. has named Michael Fischer, formerly director of capture management at IAP Worldwide Services, as director of capture and proposals at CHSi, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the retired U.S. Navy captain and surface warfare office...
Michael Taxay and Jeremy Haas, respectively former FBI and CIA officials focused on cybersecurity, have joined the executive leadership team at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions. LookingGlass said Tuesday it named Taxay as chief risk officer and general counsel and appointed Haas as chief security officer. Taxay will be responsible fo...
The United Arab Emirates will purchase laser guided bombs from Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) under a $684.4 million deal, Reuters reported Tuesday. The agreement announced at the Dubai Airshow Tuesday includes Raytheon-built GBU-10 and GBU-12 Paveway bomb kits. The deal came days after UAE awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential $1.6 billion order to...
Lori Scherer, formerly deputy director of intelligence portfolios at Mitre, has been named VP of intelligence portfolios at the National Security Engineering Center, a federally funded research and development center the nonprofit company manages for the Defense Department. In her previous role, the more than 25-year company veteran w...
A business unit of BAE Systems has secured a potential $183.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to execute fiscal 2018 modernization work on a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship. The Defense Department said Tuesday BAE’s Norfolk Ship Repair business will help the service branch maintain, update and repair USS Tortuga systems as...
Private equity investment firm H.I.G. Capital has bought Reston, Virginia-based program management and consulting services provider Whitney, Bradley and Brown for an undisclosed sum. WBB CEO Robert Olsen said in a statement published Tuesday the company aims to utilize H.I.G.’s resources in efforts to expand services for federal agency cu...
Tamara Jack, who left LMI in late 2015 after she previously served as director and associate general counsel, has returned to the Virginia-based nonprofit government consulting firm as senior vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary. Jack will oversee LMI’s legal and corporate governance functions in her ...
Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies seeking to comply with cybersecurity policies and data protection regulations should deploy a platform that works to automate the collection and analysis of large volumes of data. Davis wrote that implementing an automated system for c...
