https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJF0rG_SBOE Bladesmith and former Army Ranger Kyle Gahagan uses forging as an alternative means of therapy to help veterans with physical disabilities and those afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder at his in-home forge in Moravian Falls, N.C....
The Pentagon™s most expensive F-35 fighter jet program is expected to become even more pricey as costs spike nearly 7 percent to $406.5 billion. There is at least $27 billion in overruns, according to a draft of the Selected Acquisition Report to be submitted this week to Congress obtained by Bloomberg. After years of declines, the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 7, 2017 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will provide cybersecurity and risk management process automation support to the Defense Information Systems Agency under a $40 million blanket purchase agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the single-award BPA covers the deployment of au...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6num75MgwY Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson visited 39 Sailors who are competing on Team Navy July 1 in the Warrior Games, a Paralympic–style event for wounded, ill and injured service members in the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom and Australia....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said a combination of automation technology and a highly skilled workforce will help DoD build on its cybersecurity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. He wrote in a guest piece published S...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” Lisa Mascolo, managing director for the U.S. federal sector at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) global business services segment, has said the collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Department in updating the former’s electronic health records system works to transf...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has added Frank Kendall, former undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the Defense Department, to the company’s board of directors where he will contribute to corporate management, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Chairman and CEO Roger Krone, an inductee ...
Weekly Roundup June 26 – June 30 2017 A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we saw the unveiling of the House Armed Services Committee™s $696.5 billion defense authorization bill. The draft, titled 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was revealed on the 26th and asks for $28.5 billion more than ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2017 ” A team comprised of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and AT&T (NYSE: T) will help the Defense Information Systems Agency transform the Defense Department‘s network infrastructure into a software-defined network, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. “Software-defined networking is changing how enterprises conn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 28, 2017 ” Deloitte‘s federal consulting business has hired Alan Estevez, former principal deputy undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the Defense Department, as a national security and logistics executive, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Estevez will work with federal clients to help tra...
