Octo Consulting Group has received nominations in two categories of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards for the second year in a row. The federal technology and management solutions provider was named a finalist in both the Contractor of the Year and Executive of the Year awards, the same honors it received in 2013, Octo said […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president for the global public sector business at Amazon Web Services, and Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T Government Services, have joined the Professional Services Council’s executive advisory board for technology policies, FCW reported Tuesday. Jonathan Lutton writes other new additions to the Technology Policy Council include Attain LLC Chairman and CEO Greg Baroni and […] More

The shipbuilding industry plays a crucial role in the economy, regional development, and national security, particularly by constructing warships. Warships serve multiple military purposes, including deterring enemy attacks and safeguarding the logistics and transportation of military forces by sea. Below is a list of five prominent government military shipbuilders in no particular order. The selection […] More

Recently, ExecutiveBiz had the opportunity to speak with Frank Sturek, chief development officer for Skyepoint Decisions, to discuss his role, Skyepoint’s current shift into prime contracting, the company’s growth since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major benefits that growth has given to its customers. “One of the biggest benefits we offer to […] More

Recently, ExecutiveBiz had the opportunity to speak with Frank Sturek, chief development officer for Skyepoint Decisions, to discuss his role, Skyepoint’s current shift into prime contracting, the company’s growth since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major benefits that growth has given to its customers. “One of the biggest benefits we offer to […] More

ExecutiveBiz talked with Michelle Hertz, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, about her background, CGI Federal’s growth over the past decade and her views on the federal acquisition process. “Implementing a more robust pre-acquisition process would be a win-win approach for all parties because it would eliminate unnecessary business risks for industry and result […] More

“Any agency and any customer that is looking for a robust enterprise data center co-location facilities across all of our locations, big or small, we have the ability to service them.” EM: Let’s start with your background and experiences and how that prepared you for your current role. Stu Dyer: My career has been in building […] More

Private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners unveiled its new Polaris Alpha portfolio holding company in November through the merger of three government contracting businesses that included data services provider Intelligent Software Solutions. Based in Colorado Springs, ISS works with agencies on initiatives in data visualization, mobile software and other technology areas in efforts to help decision-makers capture […] More

STEVE COSTALAS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & SECRETARY VENCORE, INC. Steve Costalas is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Vencore, Inc.  Vencore has over 40 years of proven experience providing information solutions, engineering and analysis to the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and Civilian Agencies.  Vencore employs more than 3,800 people focused on […] More

The government services market started to get a glimpse of what would eventually become an ongoing landscape shift in October 2014 when Engility Holdings announced its $1.3 billion acquisition of fellow Chantilly, Va.-based contractor TASC, a deal which closed in February 2015. Since the TASC deal was announced, companies in the government services space have […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of Vormetric‘s federal operations, where he works to drive growth with the company’s customers in the Defense, civilian and intelligence communities. Lewandowski has spent more-than-20-years working in the federal market with emerging integrators and technology companies, most recently helping establish virtualization and storage consulting company Plan B Government Systems‘ […] More