Ryan Elliott, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of management consulting and business leadership experience, has joined Veterans Management Services Inc. as chief strategy officer. He will oversee VMSI’s service expansion initiatives in market areas such as information technology and help manage its overall performance, growth and st...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report outlining the components of a potential $740 billion annual defense policy bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the full House panel voted 57-2 Thursday, Sept. 2, to pass the ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has decided not to pursue a firm offer for U.K.-based aerospace company Meggitt, citing the “quite limited due diligence information that was made available.” TransDigm Chairman W. Nicholas Howley said in a statement Tuesday that the company had made efforts to advance a potential deal, such as arranging the needed fi...
Thomas Huber, formerly a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, has been named executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He will lead a company-wide initiative, dubbed 1MPACT, to create value for customers and shareholders over the next five years, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. ...
Raylene Yung, co-founder and former CEO of the nonprofit U.S. Digital Response organization, has been appointed executive director of the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund program management office. She will manage the funding vehicle for agencies that apply to receive federal funds to modernize information techno...
KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicl...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has won a potential five-year, $93 million blanket purchase agreement to support air defense communications work at the Defense Information Systems Agency. The GDIT business will receive $2,500 in minimum funds from DISA through an initial task order, the Department of Defense said Tuesd...
David Romola, formerly senior vice president of operations at Citizant, has assumed the role of chief operating officer of the Chantilly, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor. He will oversee account growth strategies and client delivery activities in his new role, the company said Tuesday. Citizant CEO Alba Aleman sa...
An industry team led by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential 10-year, $343 million contract to design a telecommunications network for an Australian government-owned air navigation service provider. L3Harris said Tuesday it will lead a consortium tasked with planning and designing an integrated enterprisewide system for Airservi...
