Preferred Systems Solutions has purchased Reston, Virginia-based software development services provider Synaptic Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to expand the former’s contract base and business network in the U.S. intelligence and national security communities. Josh Cury and Derrick Henley,  co-founders and owners of Synapt...
Rodin Lyasoff, a former project executive at Airbus Group‘s A3 advanced projects and partnerships outpost in Silicon Valley, has been promoted to lead A3 as chief executive. He succeeds Paul Eremenko, who was appointed as the aerospace and defense contractor’s chief technology officer, Airbus said Tuesday. Lyasoff has&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 10, 2016 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) will conduct clinical trials to test the efficacy of experimental Chikungunya virus vaccines under a five-year, $10 million task order from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the new work comes under the potent...
Jacklyn Wynn, an official at EMC™s security division RSA, has said government agencies should work to re-evaluate their cyber defense strategies through the integration of cyber policies and objectives with the way they implement their missions on a daily basis. Wynn, vice president of strategy and market development of global public sect...
October 3 – October 7, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The stalwart GovCon technology maker L-3 Communications extended its profile as an active player in the merger-and-acquisition scene this week and closed its first buys since a large business divest...
Robert Lake, former director of strategic planning at DHPC Technologies, has joined Sabre Systems as vice president of northeastern regional operations for the company. Sabre said Thursday Lake will report to President and Chief Operating Officer Glen Ives and oversee the management and development of the company’s Northeast bus...
RAND Corp. has received a potential $494.7 million contract to manage and run a federally funded research and development center for the Department of Homeland Security. DHS said Tuesday the Santa Monica, California-based nonprofit research organization will help the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center perform independe...
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has appointed new board of directors and senior executives in support of the implementation of the company™s U.S. Access Plan strategy. Howard Lance, president and CEO of MDA, said in a statement released Monday the firm™s U.S. Access Plan seeks to pursue government contracts in order to provide informat...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has been awarded a $101.3 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to produce 22 tactical missile tubes for the Ohio Replacement Program. The Defense Department said Tuesday that General Dynamics Electric Boat will build the missile tubes to support the production of the Ohio-class s...
General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business has received a potential one-year, $44 million contract to perform risk reduction efforts for the U.S. Navy™s MQ-25 unmanned carrier aerial system program. The contractor will develop trade space and refine concepts in support of requirements generation prior to the program™s enginee...
