Karen Forgy Hicks, formerly vice president and chief administration officer at Secure Mission Solutions, has been hired as executive vice president of operations at Siteworx. Hicks will be responsible for the firm’s daily operations, internal processes and team performance to drive customer service, Siteworx said Tuesday. Ken Quaglio, S...
The U.S. Army is looking at how contractors spend government-issued funds for research-and-development programs in order to better understand where industry focuses its R&D efforts, the branch’s lead acquisition executive said Wednesday. Katrina McFarland told an audience at a Potomac Officers Club-hosted event in Falls...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 20, 2016 ” Battelle™s Natick team will provide survival support and equipment systems for special operations forces to the U.S. Army under a $33 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the task order is part of the Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks contract ...
Ted Diacoumis, formerly vice president of application services at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has joined information technology provider Merlin International as its new vice president of federal civilian programs. Diacoumis brings more than 20 years of experience in commercial and government contracting, with emphasis on IT, software development and sy...
The U.S. Air Force does not want to publicly disclose the Long Range Strike Bomber contract’s value because the military service believes a disclosure may give adversaries a hint about the aircraft’s specifications, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Randall Walden, director of the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Offi...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has been awarded a three-year, $67 million contract to design and build electric propulsion technology for use in NASA‘s deep-space exploration missions. The company will help develop a propulsion system that will comprise a thruster, a power processing unit, an electrical harness and a ...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 19, 2016 — Susan Penfield, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH), has been elected into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for her vision in encouraging teamwork between employees. The Wash100 is the premier group of pri...
John Johns, a former vice president from Six3 Systems and business development executive at other GovCon companies, has joined Hanover, Md.-based cyber and geospatial services company KEYW Corp. (Nasdaq: KEYW) as vice president of BD and account executive for national agencies. KEYW said Tuesday it appointed the 25-year...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA April 18, 2016 –Vernon Saunders, Jacobs Technology general manager of the Federal Network Systems business, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his leadership in information technology and data security. The Wash100 is the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2016 ” Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) plans to invest an estimated $200 million into educational programs over the next 18 months in support of the White House’s Computer Science for All initiative, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Wednesday the investment aims to deliver computer science educ...
