Patrick Gray, formerly managing director of the aerospace and defense practice at NorthWind Partners, has joined Chicago-based executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) as a partner at the latter company™s Washington office. Gray will also serve as Heidrick & Struggles™ aerospace, defense and aeronautics sector...
A business unit of L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has won a nine-year, $1.9 billion contract to provide contractor logistics support for Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) KC/KDC-10 in-air refueling aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday L-3’s Vertex Aerospace business will operate and maintai...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a potential $73.2 million contract to Carlsbad, California-based company ViaSat (Nasdaq: VSAT) to provide Ku-band and Ka-band communications for the agency’s senior leaders and support staff. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract covers ViaSat subscription-based services for perso...
The GovCon Index started the month of June with a gain of 0.507 points to 78.613 Wednesday as U.S. investors digested several reports to gauge the country’s economy ahead of Friday’s jobs report and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s Monday speech. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) added $1.85 — or 0.78 p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2016 ” Sandia National Laboratories, which is operated by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sandia Corp. subsidiary, has unveiled the first women to join its career development program for injured veterans, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Sandia said Thursday the women will undergo training and mentorin...
TYSONS CORNER, VA., ‘June 1, 2016 — The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic — announced the addition of three new speakers at their Spring 2016 Cybersecurity Summit. Patricia Larsen, Co-Director, National Insider Threat Task Force of Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); Dav...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2016 ” Philips (NYSE: PHG) will look into location-aware assisted living technologies to support patients with mild cognitive impairment under a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the grant covers research on Ambient Assisted Livin...
John Campbell, a retired U.S. Army general and former commander of U.S. forces and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, has been appointed to the board of directors of BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary. He will serve a three-year term on the BAE Systems Inc. board, the company said Wednesda...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2016 ” InfoReliance, a reseller of Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud systems, will provide the latter’s infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service platforms to the Justice Department and Government Accountability Office, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. DOJ and GAO will use ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2016 ” IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Center for the Business of Government has partnered with George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security to set up four task forces that work to support relevant policy research and analysis efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. John Lainhart and Christ...
