Jerald Howe Jr., formerly a partner at law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, will join Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as executive vice president and general counsel. The more than 30-year industry veteran will succeed Vincent Maffeo, who will continue to support Leidos as a consultant after he retires July 15, the com...
National security solutions provider Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS) received $5 million in Orders for specialized satellite communication systems and other hardware from U.S. national security customers, the company announced Wednesday. “Our entire organization is proud to support certain of the United States’...
Dynetics has received a potential 11-year, $221.7 million contract from NASA to design, build and test a universal stage adapter for integration into the Space Launch System rocket. NASA said Thursday it will use the adapter to connect the SLS rocket to the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-2, a possible first crewed and s...
Valiant Integrated Services has bought the government services subsidiary of ABM Industries in a push to grow service offerings, operations and sales in the public sector market. The ABM Government Services business will change its name to Valiant Government Services and offer mission support, linguistics, critical infr...
Subsidiaries of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron (NYSE: TXT) have landed spots under a potential five-year, $475 million contract that covers mid-endurance unmanned aircraft system intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Boein...
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...
Frontier Electronic Systems has received a potential five-year, $72.9 million contract to manufacture sensor and data distribution systems for the U.S. Navy as well as the governments of Japan and South Korea. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will produce AN/SPQ-14 sensor distribution systems and AN/SPQ-15 data d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2017 ” Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC‘s federal business unit, has said some government agencies consider engineering and microservices as key factors in their transition from legacy to hybrid cloud information technology systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Chehreh, who also serves as a...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index reversed it’s two day slide to close up 0.030 percent to 94.703. All the U.S. indices were up on the eve of the U.K. election, the James Comey testimony, and uncertainty in the Middle East. WTI broke through the $46 mark to close down 4.88 percent to $45.84 as the OPEC production...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2017 ” Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said the company is working to help DoD transition the Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud and update other information technology infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense Sys...
