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TYSONS CORNER, VA April 1, 2015 — Executive Mosaic — GovCon Executive reported Tuesday on Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) securing the naming rights to the Ripken Stadium, a deal that Melissa Koskovich, senior vice president and director of communications and marketing at Leidos, sees as opening new op...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) CEO Roger Krone officially became chairman of the board of directors on March 20, less than a year after he joined the company from Boeing (NYSE: BA). The board designated Krone as the successor to former Chairman John Jumper, who served as CEO until he retired from that...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA February 24, 2015 – Leidos CEO Roger Krone has made it to this year’s Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for his leadership role in aerospace operations. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leaders selected by ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been selected to run the U.K. defense ministry’s logistics commodities and services program for 13 years. The company will perform warehousing procurement services and stock control of food, clothing, general and medical supplies, storage and distribution, the British government said ...
Mark Sopp, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 list for 2015, plans to retire from Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) as chief financial officer later this year. He will remain in service until the company finds a successor to the role and afterward will serve as adviser for the transition phase and other corporate ma...
Dr. Robert Beyster, the iconic founder of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) and a legend in the GovCon sector, died Monday morning of natural causes at age 90, the family said on Beyster’s personal blog Monday. Beyster founded SAIC in 1969 as an employee-owned company and it has since grow...
EDITORS NOTE: The piece below is a special edition of the Weekly Roundup newsletter written by Jim Garrettson, president and founder of this website’s parent company Executive Mosaic, to recap the biggest stories in the GovCon sector for 2014. In this year-end issue, Jim wraps up the year with a review of moves on Capitol...
Roger Krone, president of the network and space systems business unit at Boeing (NYSE: BA) for nearly six years, will join Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as CEO on July 14 to succeed the retiring John Jumper, Leidos said Tuesday. This announcement comes nearly five months after Jumper announced his plans to retire from the chief executive...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) could receive an additional order for two communications satellites from the U.S. Air Force and that purchase would be backed by international partners, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss writes the seventh Wideband Global Satcom satellite is scheduled for launch in 2015 while development of WGS-9 is underway with...
Jim Chilton, Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) former vice president and program manager for exploration launch systems, has been appointed vice president and general manager of strategic missile and defense systems. The 29-year company veteran will succeed Greg Hyslop, who will serve as VP and GM of research and technology, Boeing said Tuesday. Since March...
