Heeun Gardner, former vice president of finance at GovCIO, has been named chief financial officer at PM Consulting Group. She brings to PMCG more than 25 years of federal contracting industry experience in business functions such as financial management, operational planning and mergers and acquisitions, PMCG said Tuesday. Gardner previously s...
Mark Lee, former executive vice president of public sector business at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), will step into the chief technology executive role at the Reston, Virginia-based consulting and technology services provider. He will oversee a group focused on expanding the company’s technology capabilities and federal digital modernization business and le...
Randy Cash, a more than three-decade operational and business development leader in the GovCon industry, has been appointed president and CEO of Axient. He succeeds Patrick Murphy, who has served as chief executive of Axient since 2021. Axient emerged following the rebranding of QuantiTech and its three subsidiaries – Millennium Engineering an...
By Alan Chvotkin One of the last legislative actions taken at the close of the 117th Congress was passage by the House of Representatives of the “Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act” on Dec. 14, 2022. The president signed that bill into law on Dec. 27, 2022. Its enactment marks the end...
Leanne Caret, former CEO of the defense, space and security unit at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been elected to the board of directors at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). “With a focus on rapid deployment of highly complex systems, she has driven development of groundbreaking technology solutions throughout her tenure,” Greg Hayes, CEO and chairman...
Epiq Solutions, a radio frequency tool developer backed by Veritas Capital‘s Vantage Fund, has acquired avionics processing technology maker Xiphos Systems. Edwin Faier, president and director of business development at Xiphos, will continue to lead the Montreal-based company under the Epiq brand name, the companies said Thursday in a joint st...
NASA and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have agreed to jointly develop and test systems that can support the use of unmanned aircraft systems in air cargo operations and the rest of the country’s airspace. The collaboration falls under the Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles subproject under NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXpl...
Chicago-based private equity firm McNally Capital and Nio Advisors have invested in defense and national security company Xcelerate Solutions in a transaction that will enable the latter to expand its offerings in enterprise security, digital transformation and strategic consulting areas and offer career development opportunities to its employees. X...
The Department of Defense needs to further spur its top contractors to invest in technology innovation startups to advance the development of militarily-relevant capabilities amid power competitions with China and Russia, according to a managing director at veteran-led venture capital and growth equity firm Marlinspike Partners. In a Breaking Defens...
Andrew Shinskie, formerly vice president of business development and strategic growth for the Department of the Navy programs at Aeyon, has transitioned to a new role as VP of Navy and federal civilian agencies growth at the data analytics services company, according to a LinkedIn post published Thursday. He will oversee Aeyon’s business devel...
