Alan Stewart, former chief financial officer of Vistronix, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis as senior vice president and CFO at the Alexandria, Virginia-based professional services contractor. SPA said Friday that Stewart holds experience in positions related to business management, tax, investor relations, finance, accounting, mer...
Kristin Machacek Leary, formerly senior vice president of global human resources at Alphatec Spine, has been named VP and chief HR officer at Forcepoint — the cybersecurity joint venture of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Vista Equity Partners. Forcepoint said Tuesday that Leary will be responsible for the organization’...
Washington-based private investment firm Enlightenment Capital has generated $147 million in capital commitments for its second fund in support of efforts to implement a strategy to invest in middle market firms in the aerospace, defense and government sector. Devin Talbott, managing partner at Enlightenment Capital, said in a statement re...
The First Responder Network Authority is in the evaluation phase and is close to awarding a contract to build a national public safety broadband network for first responders. FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said Thursday the agency has completed several tasks in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation in order to facilitate the contract award...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed in narrow range Tuesday despite a majority of the session in positive as declines by aerospace and defense primes offset gains by Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) on news of a pending divestiture and Engility Corp. (NYSE: EGL) after quarterly earnings that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. GovC...
Engility Corp. (NYSE: EGL) described to investors Thursday three third quarter contract wins and the loss of another as examples of its shift toward pursuits of larger “best-value” programs versus lowest-price, technically-acceptable work. A slide in the company’s third quarter earnings call presentati...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 1, 2016 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the company hopes to see SpaceX resume launch services within the year as the investigation continues into the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket in September, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. SpaceX has stated that it has discovered a way to...
Altamira Technologies has bought engineering services contractor APG Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to strengthen existing customer relationships and expand geographic reach across the intelligence, defense and aerospace markets. APG works with customer agencies to help them manage complex information...
TYSONS CORNER, VA., November 1, 2016 — The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic — rounds out speakers for their Fall 2016 Cybersecurity Summit. Join us for our annual Fall Cybersecurity Summit to hear from the FBI, OPM and DHS on the evolving insider threat and how organizations can be more active in...
Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has agreed to sell its maritime energy communications business to global satellite services company SpeedCast International for $425 million in the military radio maker’s first divestiture since its August agreement with activist hedge fund Jana Partners. This move is part of Harris’ larger effort ...
