Van Gurley’s successful career in government contracting might appear largely happenstance. “I typically said yes and would walk through that door even when I wasn’t sure what was on the other side of it,” Gurley told us about opportunities he encountered that proved invaluable later in his career. He began his working life as a...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Tom Watson, CEO of Serco Group’s North American business, with his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to Serco’s offices. Vote for Tom Watson as your favorite GovCon executive at Wash100.com! The 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition runs until April 30, and the top 10 will be announced in ...
KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) national security solutions division has received contracts worth over $450 million from government clients for technical systems engineering services in support of various space-related projects. The company said Monday the contracts encompass applied research, data science, acquisition support, systems engineering, communic...
Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has closed its purchase of software development firm Microtel for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to broaden its customer relationships and space system capabilities. Microtel is a systems engineering firm that develops mission-critica...
Carrie George, formerly a vice president at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been named VP, chief financial officer and treasurer at nonprofit research and development company Draper. George, who brings to the role two decades of aerospace and defense industry experience, will oversee efforts to drive the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company...
BAE Systems has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $104 million combined to build additional amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it will produce and deliver production representative test vehicles to support government testing of the ACV’s recovery variant in 2025 under a $79 million contra...
Thomas Bell, CEO of Leidos, has made his debut on Executive Mosaic’s most prestigious 2024 Wash100 list for his leadership and dedication to driving the development of next-generation technologies for defense, intelligence and national security sectors. Vote for Bell as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote compe...
For the past 20-plus years, Jason Adolf has helped government agencies identify and implement technologies that help them modernize for the present and the future. As vice president for global public sector at Appian, he works closely with defense and civilian agencies as well as state and local government and education institutions to help them...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded basic ordering agreements to 37 companies as part of the second pool of the STRATUS program for cloud integration and development support services. USDA issued a request for quotes in late September and received 122 quotes for STRATUS Cloud BOA Pool 2, according to a special notice published...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $250 million contract modification to the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory to sustain its provision of research, development, test and evaluation support for Department of Defense programs. The modification raises the ceiling value of a previously awarded contract to $925.8 million, the ...
