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  • Michael Mangan Joins Siege Technologies as CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Mangan Joins Siege Technologies as CFO

    Michael Mangan, a veteran finance executive with more than two decades of leadership experience, has joined cybersecurity technology research and development company Siege Technologies as chief financial officer. “I look forward to helping the Siege team grow both organically and through strategic acquisitions. It is exciting to get in the action on the front lines of […] More

  • HII Technical Solutions Unit Adds Former Alion Execs Todd Borkey, Chris Bishop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Technical Solutions Unit Adds Former Alion Execs Todd Borkey, Chris Bishop

    TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2021 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has named Todd Borkey chief technology officer and Chris Bishop as chief growth officer of the military shipbuilder’s technical solutions division after it closed the acquisition of Alion Science and Technology, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 26. “Alion is a perfect complement to our […] More

  • Accenture Federal Arm to Support DOD Warehouse Utilization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Federal Arm to Support DOD Warehouse Utilization Project

    Accenture‘s federal arm has secured a potential $22.5 million from Washington Headquarters Services to provide warehouse utilization services to the Department of Defense. DOD said Friday it aims to increase the use of storage space in department-operated warehouses up to 75 percent and save more than $575 million through the initiative. Under the one-year base […] More

  • Cubic-General Dynamics Team to Develop Army Training System Prototype; Mike Knowles Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic-General Dynamics Team to Develop Army Training System Prototype; Mike Knowles Quoted

    Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions unit has teamed up with General Dynamics‘ mission systems business to develop a system for the U.S. Army to train military personnel in fire engagements. Under a one-year contract, the partnership will aim to build a prototype of the Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Live Training System as the service aims […] More

  • UAV Sector Vet Geoffrey Hitchcock Joins Red Cat as Global Defense Business SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UAV Sector Vet Geoffrey Hitchcock Joins Red Cat as Global Defense Business SVP

    Geoffrey Hitchcock, former vice president of sales and business development at Vantage Robotics, has been named senior vice president of global defense solutions at drone software provider Red Cat Holdings. He will be responsible for identifying business opportunities for the Golden Eagle unmanned aircraft system in the military sector and exploring potential public safety applications […] More

  • Don Raines Joins Belcan Government IT Business as Growth SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Don Raines Joins Belcan Government IT Business as Growth SVP

    Don Raines, former vice president of business development at CACI International, has been named senior VP of growth within Belcan’s government information technology services unit. Wayne Lucernoni, president of Belcan Government IT Solutions, announced Raines’ appointment in a LinkedIn post. Prior to CACI, Raines was chief growth officer at Alion Science and Technology, now part […] More

  • Octo Secures NIH IT Support Contract; Charles McQuillan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Secures NIH IT Support Contract; Charles McQuillan Quoted

    Octo has received a $15 million contract to provide information technology support services to a National Institutes of Health organization that conducts research on arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases. The Reston, Virginia-based IT provider said Tuesday it will help the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases maintain hardware and implement software […] More

  • Former NRO Official Frank Calvelli Joins Booz Allen as SVP; Judi Dotson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NRO Official Frank Calvelli Joins Booz Allen as SVP; Judi Dotson Quoted

    Frank Calvelli, a 34-year federal service veteran who most recently served as principal deputy director at the National Reconnaissance Office, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton‘s national security unit as a senior vice president. His responsibilities include overseeing the company’s work in the space segment as it aims to provide new technology to intelligence and defense […] More

  • Orolia Defense & Security Releases GNSS Scenario Creation Tech Offering; Tyler Hohman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orolia Defense & Security Releases GNSS Scenario Creation Tech Offering; Tyler Hohman Quoted

    Orolia Defense & Security has added a product to its portfolio of simulation technology platforms designed to help engineers create scenarios for testing global navigation satellite systems. The BroadSim Solo simulator is powered by the company’s Skydel software and can be placed on a desk or a workstation to help users emulate the environment of […] More

  • Thomas Laliberty: Raytheon Uses 'Advanced Algorithms' in UAS Threat, Attack Modeling - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Laliberty: Raytheon Uses ‘Advanced Algorithms’ in UAS Threat, Attack Modeling

    Raytheon Technologies is applying modeling and simulation tools in an effort to understand threat scenarios associated with unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Wednesday its missiles and defense unit begins the simulation process with “the outer layers of air defense” to detect a possible drone threat before the UAS reaches a target such as a […] More

  • Robert Mehrabian to Succeed Al Pichelli as Teledyne President, CEO in Series of Exec Moves - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Mehrabian to Succeed Al Pichelli as Teledyne President, CEO in Series of Exec Moves

    Robert Mehrabian, executive chairman of Teledyne Technologies for the past three years, will return to his prior roles as the industrial conglomerate’s chairman, president and CEO when Al Pichelli retires from the company on Oct. 15 after a four-decade career. Teledyne said Monday its employment contract with Mehrabian shall remain valid through 2023 and it […] More

  • Industry Experts: Multi-Vendor Cloud Program Gives DOD Fresh Start - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Experts: Multi-Vendor Cloud Program Gives DOD Fresh Start

    Several industry leaders and observers agree that the Department of Defense’s move to replace its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract with a multi-award procurement vehicle represents a fresh start to address its evolving technology requirements, the National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Alex Rossino, an advisory research analyst on Deltek‘s federal market analysis team, told […] More