John Holmes, chief operating officer of AAR‘s (NYSE: AIR) aviation services business and a 16-year company veteran, has been promoted to the roles of president and CFO in a move that takes effect June 1. AAR said Tuesday Holmes will also begin to serve as a member of its board of directors starting July 11 and continue to...
The U.S. Army has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential five-year, $231 million contract that covers non-personal services for the Army Combined Arms Center. The Defense Department said Wednesday contractors will vie for task orders to help CAC develop and produce training and education strategies, scientific human subjec...
Jonathan Schildkraut, formerly senior managing director for equity research at investment and consulting firm Guggenheim Partners, has joined CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE) as an executive vice president and chief strategy officer at the Dallas-based data center provider. He will report directly to CyrusOne CEO Gary Wojtaszek and oversee the company™s...
The State Department has given Iraq the go-ahead to purchase High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, rifles and other military equipment for the Middle Eastern country™s two Peshmerga infantry brigades and two artillery battalions under a potential $295.6 million foreign military sales agreement. The government of Iraq asked to b...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up as advancing stocks outpaced declining 2 to 1. U.S. markets closed mixed as the economy grew at modest to moderate rates per the Bloomberg report. IBM reported weak earnings which helped hold the markets back. At market close WTI was also down $1.86 to $ 50.55 per barrel in response...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure technology is now covered in its vSphere offering to the Defense Department under the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s updated Security Technical Implementation Guide, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company sa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) General Counsel Vincent Maffeo and the company’s legal department will lead a new program that works to provide free legal assistance to U.S. military veterans, community nonprofit groups and people in need, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A business unit of General Atomics will provide a lithium-ion battery system for a portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of a contract with the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will supply it...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A division of Vencore will perform research and development work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a $10.3 million contract for the Dispersed Computing program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Vencore Labs will produce software platforms that work to build on network and ap...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A subsidiary of Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) has released a new application that works to consolidate requirements and resources in order to streamline reporting and security compliance, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday its TeraLogics company within Cubic Mission Solutions developed the ...
