Ian Bell, formerly head of the Europe/Middle East/Africa region at CAE (NYSE: CAE), has been named vice president and general manager for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East within the Montreal, Quebec-based company’s defense and security segment. CAE also appointed Marc-Olivier Sabourin, formerly regional operations director and d...
Omniplex World Services has received a potential $80 million contract to provide protective security officer services to the Department of Homeland Security headquarters at Nebraska Avenue Complex in Washington. The company said Thursday it will assist the DHS Force Protection Branch in physical security missions for the de...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has received a potential three-year, $152 million task order to provide global systems field and software support to the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday it will assist the Army Communications and Electronics Command™s software engineering center in efforts to provide post-deployment and post-p...
Tiffanny Gates, federal business president at Novetta since January 2016, will elevate to the CEO role at the McLean, Va.-based analytics technology company in March 2017. Novetta said Feb. 10 that Gates will succeed Peter LaMontagne, who will leave the company in a full-time capacity. Global investment firm Carlyle Group purchased N...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded Humana (NYSE: HUM) a one-year, $3.80 billion “bridge” contract to extend the company’s healthcare delivery services under the Tricare Health Benefits program. Humana’s government business unit will continue to support health benefits management functions and ...
Nine companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract to supply desktop computers and other mobile computing platforms to the U.S. Army. The Army Contracting Command received 58 bids for the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing-3 contract vehicle, the Defense Department said Thursday. The ADMC-3 contract covers integrated des...
Airbus‘ defense and space business has been awarded a potential $212 million contract by the European Space Agency to produce a second service module for the Orion spacecraft that Lockheed Martin currently builds for NASA. Airbus said Thursday the second European service module will be built to provide ...
A business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has received a potential five-year, $170 million task order to help the Defense Intelligence Agency secure enterprise intelligence systems and networks being used by DIA, combatant commands and other U.S. military agencies. General Dynamics said Thursday its information technology business will pro...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed at a new all-time high for a fourth consecutive session on strong fourth quarter earnings from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 retreated Thursday after a five-day stretch of record closes. Both the GCI and U.S. equities had set cont...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 16, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has added Avnet to its Government Reseller Program to enable the latter to offer AWS cloud products to the public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Avnet said Tuesday it will utilize the Avnet Cloud Marketplace to resell AWS cloud platforms and services ...
