Tag Archives: 2019 Wash100

George Mason University School of Business’ Center for Government Contracting and Defense Acquisition University will be hosting the 2019 Government Contracting Conference for the first time on Oct. 3rd at the Washington Marriott Metro Center. Click here to register for the conference. 

Michael Hoskin, a retired Army brigadier general, has joined management consulting services firm Guidehouse as a director and senior adviser to the defense sector.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $4.6B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA to produce six Orion spacecraft to transport astronauts to the moon.

Perspecta's (NYSE: PRSP) applied research arm has been selected to receive a 2019 Industry Innovator award for introducing three cybersecurity technology platforms through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will operate with four operating sectors starting January 2020 as part of efforts to better align its portfolio to meet clients' needs.

Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, reported on the multidomain  operations concept driving capability tradeoffs worth up to $5B per year in the U.S. Air Force's program objective memorandum for fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2025.

Aaron Faulkner, former vice president of cybersecurity at ECS, has been named head of the cyber practice within Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal subsidiary. The more than 18-year industry veteran will oversee efforts to design, build and deliver cybersecurity offerings to federal civilian and defense customers in his new position, Accenture said Monday.

Kevin Phillips, CEO of ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has said companies that develop open architectures could help government customers introduce new features into an existing platform faster.

Two teams led by Carahsoft Technology and Grant Thornton have received task orders under the General Services Administration’s potential $2.5B NewPay blanket purchase agreement to modernize payroll processing systems that support more than 2.2M federal civilian workers.

Anthony “Toby” O’Brien, chief financial officer of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), will become CFO of the combined company once Raytheon and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) complete their merger.