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Holly Beveridge, a more than 25-year contracting veteran, has been appointed chief financial officer at Reston, Va.-based national security technology provider Vistronix. Beveridge is a certified public accountant and will be responsible for overseeing the financial activities of the entire organization in her new position, Vistronix said Nov. 11. John …

Twenty-two-year Oracle veteran Peter Doolan has joined Salesforce.com as senior vice president of global enterprise sales engineering. Doolan previously served as group vice president and chief technology officer for Oracle’s public sector operations, where he led the design and construction of information management solutions and oversaw support of Oracle sales …

Ron Police, the former vice president of Apple Government, has joined SAP National Security Services (NS2), the independent national security and critical infrastructure contracting subsidiary of SAP, GovCon Wire has learned. Police developed strategies, built up a sales organization and launched mobility solutions for federal, state and local governments for …

Executives Joe Kopfman, Peter Smith, Chris Braccio and Jason Frye break down the deal and its impact on the Chantilly, Va.-based professional, technical and information technology services contractor. In September 2012, AMERICAN SYSTEMS announced it would purchase SAIC‘s test and evaluation business as it looked to capture opportunities “in a market that traditionally …

Rising From the Abyss? Bob Kipps, Managing Director,  KippsDeSanto & Company As industry dealmakers know, government services and defense deal closings during first half of this year were hollowed out by the double whammy of higher capital gain taxes and advent of sequestration that occurred earlier this year. Anticipation of …

GovCon Wire along with our Executive Mosaic sister sites ExecutiveBiz and ExecutiveGov has been engaging our audience to join us in exploring the developments and trends that have shaped government contracting now more than halfway through 2013. We’ve included excerpts from three of those authorities who provided insight into the …

Press Release – Monday, July 8 Des Moines, Ia.-based executive search and recruitment firm Vermillion Group has merged with PrincetonOne, a total recruitment services provider based in Skillman, N.J., effective July 1, 2013. Vermillion Group’s office will operate under the PrincetonOne name, becoming the company’s fifteenth U.S. location and increasing …

The country’s government contractors have identified sequestration, growth and lowest price, technically acceptable programs as the key challenges they face in 2013, the Washington Post reported Monday. Jennifer Sakole, Deltek principal research analyst and author of the report, writes the top concerns were gleaned from Herndon-based Deltek’s recently concluded Surviving …

Wayne Wilkinson, a 20-year industry veteran, has joined WBB as chief financial officer. He will be responsible for the contracting, human relations and finance departments, the Reston, Va.-based government services provider said Monday. “We are excited to have an individual with Wayne’s leadership and financial expertise join the WBB team and contribute …

Finding The New Normal Bob Kipps, Managing Director,  KippsDeSanto & Company With only 15 government services and 25 defense M&A deals announced so far this year (vs 72 for the comparable period in 2012), it may seem premature to say the M&A market’s back in equilibrium. However, it seems to …