Don Claussen, a 15-year satellite communications industry veteran, has been appointed CEO of Herndon, Virginia-based satcom provider ST Engineering iDirect. He will be responsible for helping drive ST Engineering iDirect’s vision to expand its presence in the global satcom marketplace, the company said Monday. Claussen most recently served as ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bipartisan bill that seeks to protect U.S. intellectual property by imposing economic penalties on companies and individuals involved in IP theft. Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., introduced the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act, which requires within six months a con...
The Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has posted a draft solicitation for a potential seven-year, $250 million contract vehicle that seeks to equip mission training complexes with multipurpose training and simulation equipment. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says the Battle Command Training Equipment con...
James DeVaul, formerly a federal advisory partner at KPMG, has been appointed director of federal business at information technology services provider Bulletproof. The nearly 30-year federal market veteran will support Bulletproof’s growth efforts within the sector, the GLI company said Thursday. While at KPMG, DeVaul helped craft the firmR...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has acquired Reston, Virginia-based management consulting firm Amyx for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its cybersecurity and enterprise technology service offerings. Tetra Tech said Thursday Amyx will become part of its government services group as a result of the transaction. “The addition of Amyx to our...
Paul Shew, formerly a senior vice president at CAES, will officially assume his new role as president of Cubic’s mission and performance solutions segment on Jan. 9. He will report to Stevan Slijepcevic, president and CEO of Cubic, and oversee the strategic vision, product lines, growth initiatives and expansion efforts at CMPS, the company sa...
Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has promoted Enterprise Technology Officer Don Styer to the newly created position of chief technology officer and 18-year company veteran Christine Kalb to the chief information officer post. “Combined, Don and Christine bring a great compliment of technical and leadership perspectives and industry ex...
Former Akima Support Operations President Doug Magee has been appointed president of Day & Zimmermann’s government services business and he will serve on the D&Z Leadership Council. Magee will lead the group that provides mission support to government clients in areas such as staffing, global security, architecture and engineering, and...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a task order from the U.S. Army to build a new variant of its HoloLens-based augmented reality headset. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System comes with situational awareness tools meant to enable warfighters to rehearse, fight and train through a single device and the IVAS 1.2 variant will include software ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will provide a long-range, anti-ship cruise missile system to the government of Romania under a potential $217.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy. Romania will initially obligate $208.7 million to acquire the Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defense System through U.S. foreign military sales program, the Defense...
