Jeff Johnson, a more than two-decade public and private sector veteran, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as senior director for veterans affairs business development, FedHealthIT reported Friday. He previously worked as a senior manager for Grant Thornton‘s global public sector healthcare practice. Before he joined industry, Johnson served in th...
Jerry Tiefenbrunn, a 20-year U.S. Army veteran, has been named vice president of business development within Day & Zimmermann‘s government services division, GovConWire has learned. Tiefenbrunn will manage the business portfolios of Day & Zimmermann’s SOC and Mason & Hanger subsidiaries and oversee the company™s contract...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report on key takeaways from the testimonies of Department of Defense and Air Force officials at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held Thursday. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 recipient, wrote in the report that the Senate hearin...
Palantir Technologies has won a potential contract worth over $800M from the U.S. Army to build and deploy a battlefield intelligence platform for warfighters, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Army selected Palantir and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) in March 2018 to help address the service™s technology requirements for the Distributed Common G...
Five companies have won contracts worth up to $350.6M combined to provide training and supplemental materials for Department of the Navy acquisition professionals. Contractors will work to help the department energize its acquisition personnel, foster teamwork, understand career path productivity and inform workforce-related decision making, accordi...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Harris, CEO of Raytheon International and vice president of Business Development of Raytheon, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Harris for securing several major contracts for Raytheon and supporting projects in defense, civil govern...
McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the remarks of Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, at a Defense Innovation Board meeting. Lord, a 2019 Wash100 recipient, discussed the need to bifurcate software development from hardware development and cited the Department of Defense’s...
Jim Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence, joined StellarPeak as a senior advisor in January. In this role, Clapper is advising StellarPeak executives on strategic planning, market intelligence and business development to advance the company’s growth in the intelligence community. “Jim brings world-class experience to our...
ID Experts has received a potential five-year, $400M blanket purchase agreement from the Office of Personnel Management to provide identity theft protection services to people affected by massive federal data breaches in 2015. The company said Tuesday it will continue to provide ID and credit monitoring, insurance and restoration services using the ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 15th, Govcon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 5th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit. The event featured keynote addresses from five of the top leaders in the R&D field. Mary Miller, acting assistant secretary for research and engineering at the Department of De...
