Click here to view the full list of GovCon and Government Leaders inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 in 2013. The 2013 GovCon market saw a historic period of turmoil, uncertainty and change that will impact GovCon firms, the federal government and U.S. citizens for years. As the Asia pivot took hold, next-gen technologies grew up […] More

Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

Sotera Defense Solutions has been awarded a $60 million task order to help the FBI maintain its Sentinel information and case management program. The five-year order falls under the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 Unrestricted Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, Sotera announced Tuesday. “Sotera is honored to be awarded this contract with Sentinel, which is used by the dedicated men […] More

Boeing will deploy Dutch cybersecurity company SecurityMatters’ intrusion detection system as part of the defense contractor’s enterprise network sentinel platform designed to identify vulnerabilities in information systems architecture. SilentDefense ICS reviews network configuration and pinpoints malfunctions through network fingerprinting, SecurityMatters said Wednesday. SecurityMatters’ CEO Dr. Sandro Etalle said that “more than 20 man years of […] More

NDP, a net-centric systems engineering company, has won a task order to design a communications  infrastructure framework for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. The Air Force picked NDP to build a prototype of a network-independent messaging system using open-source software, NDP said Monday. NDP won the contract under the General Services […] More

General Atomics will spend $11 million to expand manufacturing operations in Lee County, Miss. and plans to create about 80 new jobs there, The Clarion-Ledger reported Monday. The publication reports GA will transfer production of defense, energy and nuclear equipment to an 87,650-square-foot building at the company’s existing campus in the Tupelo Lee Industrial Park. […] More

AtHoc Inc. has provided a mass notification system to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for hospital personnel to communicate and safeguard patients in the event of an emergency. The Bethesda, Md.-based military hospital implemented AtHoc’s Interactive Warning System, which works to notify 12,000 on-premise medical staff in the event of a critical situation, AtHoc […] More

ICF International will work with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Development and Cooperation to develop and implement emissions trading systems in China. The company will design greenhouse gas emissions trading in China with the goal of helping the country lower emissions, ICF International said Wednesday. David Hathaway, vice president and managing director for ICF […] More

A publicly-owned electric utility in Seattle has selected a suite of Oracle enterprise software applications to manage smart grid infrastructures and services. Seattle City Light intends to use Oracle’s products to fulfill customer support, operational and cost requirements in the utility’s metering business, Oracle said Tuesday. “A key factor in our Oracle selection was that […] More

Leo Burnett Worldwide is using IBM technology to manage its workforce talent through surveys analysis to drive revenue, increase retention and strengthen its global workforce. The company is using IBM’s data analytics and worked with IBM’s Smarter Workforce consultants to create valuable insights from its annual global people survey of about 8,500 people, IBM announced Monday. […] More

Randy Hayes serves as the director of federal sciences and healthcare at DataDirect Networks, where he acts as a strategic technical and business consultant to government organizations. Hayes has led lighthouse bioinformatics and healthcare projects at laboratories run by the Department of Health and Human Services and by other federal agencies. He also focuses on projects […] More

Sotera Defense Solutions will develop tools and provide services for the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under a potential $900 million contract. SPAWARSYSCEN intends for that equipment and work to help build, test and deploy C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, combat Systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), information operations, enterprise information services and space technologies, […] More