Tim Schmitt, chief development officer at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), will join the company’s executive leadership team on Aug. 1. He will continue to serve in his current role while overseeing the Centreville, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s mergers and acquisitions program, strategy and market research initiatives, Parsons said Tuesda...
Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed, Prabhakar will serve as Biden’s chief adviser for science and technology, a co-chair of the presidentâ...
Jay Atkinson, formerly director and assistant general counsel for mergers and acquisitions at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been promoted to vice president and general counsel of the company’s Electric Boat subsidiary. Atkinson announced his new position in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He joined the Reston, Virginia-based government co...
A new McAleese & Associates report indicates that defense stock prices have spiked 18 percent to 20 percent year-to-date and outperformed the S&P 500 as sector investors react to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, noted investors see a 10 percent spike in Depar...
Software startup Epsilon3 has secured $15 million in a round of Series A financing led by Lux Capital and will use the investment to expand its line of space project management platforms, SpaceNews reported Monday. Epsilon3 offers a web-based platform that offers collaboration tools customized for spacecraft manufacturing and operations and seeks to...
GovCon Expert David Egts, chief technologist and senior director of the Office of the Chief Technologist for Red Hat’s North America Public Sector, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the current administration’s Executive Order on transforming the federal customer experience and what it means for government agencies and the systems int...
James Arko, a nearly three-decade industry veteran, has assumed the chief operating officer role at Alexandria Virginia-based company Technical and Project Engineering. Arko is responsible for managing corporate administrative functions within TAPE’s portfolio of training and readiness, technology and knowledge-based services, the woman-owned ...
John Heneghan, president of ECS, was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office. Executive Mosaic recognizes John Heneghan as a first-time recipient of the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon) for his leadership and driving company growth ...
David Appel, most recently vice president of command and control digital solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, has joined Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing arm as VP of national security, GovCon Wire has learned. He announced his move to Amazon Web Services in a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a 10-year, $84.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency to provide automation and other services in support of its operations. The contractor will help DIA design and deploy a data centric architecture with cloud computing capability for digital enrichment tool develo...
