Teresa Covington, who held the interim chief financial officer role between Feb. 5, 2015 and July 7, 2015 at AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV), has been appointed CFO on a full-time basis at the unmanned aircraft systems manufacturer. AeroVironment said Tuesday Covington will succeed Raymond Cook, who will resign as senior ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher on contributions from large defense prime contractors as U.S stocks pared back some gains from earlier in the session after the terror attack in a Berlin Christmas market and the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 3-to-1 r...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” Victory Media has awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a silver-medal designation on its Military Friendly Employers list for 2017 in recognition of the government science and technology services provider’s veteran employment and education initiatives, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Leidos ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” A Parsons subsidiary has received a five-year task order from the General Services Administration to provide command, control, communications, computers and capability development support services to the U.S. Cyber Command, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Secure Mission Solutions will perform research and dev...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded Battelle a potential five-year, $9.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development, operations and maintenance support services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Battelle’s staff will assist in the daily operations of the Air Force ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Collinear Networks have entered into a partnership in efforts to commercialize wireless transmission technology over a period of more than two years, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Collinear has worked to develop a Lockheed-built hybrid point-to-point wireless transmiss...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” BAE Systems looks to employ a total of 235 graduates in 2017 across various units of its U.K. operations, including sectors focused on maritime naval ships and submarines, electronic systems, military air and information and land systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the majorit...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has purchased Owings Mills, Md.-based health information technology services contractor Edaptive Systems for an undisclosed sum to add new agile software development and business intelligence offerings in the federal healthcare market. ManTech said Monday it expects the deal to help increase earnings in 2017...
Anne Altman, former general manager of U.S. federal and government industries at IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Product Management Vice President Gayathri Rajan have been appointed to the board of directors at government services contractor Maximus (NYSE: MMS). Reston, Va.-based Maximus said Monday Alt...
Solon, Ohio-based expeditionary shelter systems provider HDT Global has purchased the assets of DRS Environmental Systems for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand the former’s mobile aircraft ground platforms, environmental control units and mobile enclosure product offerings. The transaction will allow HDT Global to include two DESI facili...
