Dell Awarded AF Contract to Provide Cloud Services Support
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 17, 2015 — Dell Federal Systems has been awarded a contract to provide cloud services to the U.S. Air Force through the Collaboration Pathfinder program, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Microsoft and General Dynamics will serve as...
ManTech Sells Software Arm to EDR Provider CounterTack
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 16, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Wednesday on ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) selling its commercial software division to CounterTack, a big data endpoint detection and response company. The deal includes ManTech acquiring an equity stake in CounterTack,...
Jacobs Engineering Names Steven Demetriou as President, CEO
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 15, 2015 — Steven Demetriou will join Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) as its new president and CEO beginning on Aug. 17, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday. Demetriou, a global business leader for more than 30 years,...
Tom Romeo Highlights Workforce Focus at Maximus, Post-Acentia Buy
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 14, 2015 — Tom Romeo, Maximus federal services president, is busy with company culture and workforce integration months into its recent purchase of information technology services firm Acentia. Romeo told BisNow in an interview posted Friday...
Andy Jazwick Joins CAE as DC Operations VP for Defense and Security
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 13, 2015 — CAE has announced Andy Jazwick as its new Washington operations vice president for the company’s defense and security business unit, GovCon Wire reported Friday. Jazwick brings more than three decades of experience in...
Boeing Receives Long Lead Items Procurement Contract for FRP P-8A
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 6, 2015 — Boeing has received a $358.9 million contract modification to provide long lead items for the manufacture of 29 P-8A Poseidon aircraft ordered by the U.S. Navy and Australia, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Sixty-one...
HII Awarded Maintenance Support Work on USS Nimitz, Carl Vinson
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 6, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries said it has come into new work to provide support for maintenance services on two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Carl Vinson, GovCon Wire reported Thursday....
CTC Awards Winners to Great Americans Essay Event
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 1, 2015 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate CTC Foundation has held its Great Americans Day Essay Contest annual event with Johnstown, Pittsburgh, students tasked to write about media man and humorist Will Rogers as this year’s...
Lockheed Subsidiary Awarded VA Caregiver Resource, Time, Attendance Systems Contracts; Horace Blackman Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA July 1, 2015 — The Department of Veterans Affairs has chosen Lockheed Martin company Systems Made Simple to update and aid in the expansion of the agency’s Caregiver Application Tracker platform, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday. Systems Made...
DIA Picks Parsons for Support Work on Missile and Space Intelligence Center
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 30, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Monday on the Defense Intelligence Agency awarding Parsons Government Services a potential $68.8 million contract to provide support for the Missile and Space Intelligence Center. The Pentagon said Friday work...
Bruce Carlson Joins Lockheed Martin Board of Directors
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 29, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Friday on Lockheed Martin announcing Bruce Carlson’s election to its board of directors. Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin chairman, president and CEO, cited the former U.S. Air Force general’s expertise in security...
Mac Curtis Announces Jennifer Felix as New Addition to Vencore Executive Team
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 26, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Thursday on Jennifer Felix being named senior vice president and chief financial officer at Vencore, effective July 20. Felix joins Vencore from Sotera Defense Solutions, where she held the CTO...
CACI Lands SPAWAR Contract To Evaluate Naval Ship Maintenance Operations
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 25, 2015 — GovCon Wire reported Wednesday on CACI International being awarded a potential $59.8 million task order to help the U.S. Navy evaluate how its ships are maintained. The work includes four years of modeling and analysis support for the Space and...
Leidos Exec Lou Von Thaer Takes Helm at DynCorp
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 24, 2015 — Lou Von Thaer, former national security sector president at Leidos, has joined DynCorp International as the new CEO to replace interim chief executive Jim Geisler, who occupied the caretaker role for 10 months, GovCon...
Lockheed EVP Rick Ambrose Ushers In Jill Hruby as New Sandia Labs Lead
TYSONS CORNER, VA June 24, 2015 — Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for Lockheed Martin Space Systems and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, has announced Jill Hruby as the new president and director of the federally funded...