Boeing will maintain and perform engineering work on a system used by the U.S. military to rescue warfighters in distress under a four-year, $32.5 million contract. The company will also help train Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy on how to use the Combat Survivor Evader Locator tool, the company said Thursday. “With this first-ever multi-year CSEL support contract, Boeing will […] More

A Deltek study says approximately 1,100 contractors have exited or are scheduled to leave the Small Business Administration‘s 8(a) business development program in fiscal year 2014, the Washington Post reported April 14. Kathleen Sievers, a Deltek research manager, writes that those companies hold almost $5 billion in combined set-aside task order contracts that will expire […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Tina Kuhn, a top cybersecurity executive with Northrop Grumman Information Systems, on Northrop’s international expansion, opportunities for transformation within the government budget environment, how to “build-in” cyber defenses, and more in the cyber space. Kuhn joined Northrop in 2012 after holding a series of GovCon leadership roles focusing on intelligence and […] More

Bill Jaffe co-founded TAPE in 2003 and serves as executive vice president and general manager at the Alexandria, Va.-based SDVOSB – Service-Disabled, Veteran–Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business. Among his many leadership responsibilities, Jaffe manages TAPE’s corporate development, M&A and IDIQ activities. TAPE specializes in systems engineering and provides technological; program and management support; and training solutions […] More

BAE Systems has completed the design review for its aircraft survivability equipment intended to help detect missile threats. The tool has been updated to work with other survivability technologies by obtaining data from radar and laser warning receivers, BAE Systems said Wednesday. BAE Systems intends for the equipment to help minimize workloads for U.S. Army […] More

Joseph Blackburn, a 35-year criminal justice veteran and former Pennsylvania state police official, has joined the advisory board of communications technology provider Mutualink. He is also a consultant to the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Penn State University, Mutualink announced Tuesday. “We share a passion for excellence in public safety and security, something that […] More

Donna Kludsikofsky, an employee at CenturyLink, has been honored by an agency of the Department of Defense for her work to support the Washington State National Guard and Reserve. The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve presented Kludsikofsky with the Patriot Award for her work with the DoD organizations. “The Patriot Award was created by ESGR to […] More

Leidos will help the West Point Society of DC promote leadership ethics and diversity by sponsoring a science, technology, engineering and math workshop on April 11 at Howard University. The workshop, administered and funded by Seeds of Humanity Foundation, is slated to have an attendence of more than 40 schools with 220 teachers and student delegates […] More

John Thomas joined Leidos as the Reston, Va.-based national security, health and engineering contractor’s chief strategic officer after Leidos’ 2013 separation from the legacy SAIC organization, where he most recently led close-to-13,000 analysts, scientists, engineers, and business professionals as acting president of SAIC’s National Security Sector. Thomas joined SAIC as an executive focused on military […] More

A General Dynamics division has been awarded a $74.7 million contract to provide egress survivability kits for mine resistant and ambush protected vehicles used by the U.S. Marine Corps. General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection will manufacture 916 kits for the USMC to upgrade front and rear doors, exhaust system and rear steps on […] More

Martin “Marty” Howard has been appointed to serve as the next vice president for the C4ISR and Homeland Security division of MacAulay-Brown Inc.‘s Gray Enterprise Solutions department located in Aberdeen, Md. In this role, Howard will lead the division’s growth through its existing customer base in the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, C4ISR, Homeland Security and […] More

Stuart Taylor, a senior director for business development at Sabre Systems, overviewed the roles and responsibilities of a class 1 sargeant major and warrant officer in the British army on March 14. Taylor, also a national security and intelligence adviser at Sabre, presented the briefing during the the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Association‘s meeting at […] More