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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has recorded more than 1 million flight hours for its Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system since the aircraft's first deployment with the U.S. Army in March 2004. The Gray Eagle platform hit the milestone during March 16 flight operations conducted by the military service, the company said Wednesday.
Michael Schaefer, formerly president of High Velocity Services and a U.S. Navy veteran, has joined Dinocrates Group's Global Management Systems Inc. subsidiary as an executive vice president. The more than two-decade industry veteran will oversee GMSI's operations, growth and strategic efforts in his new position, the company said Tuesday.
AT&T has received a potential 12-year, $231 million task order to update data and voice communications networks that will support 100,000 Treasury Department personnel. The company said Tuesday it will provide the department networking and cybersecurity services as part of the new award under the General Services Administration-managed Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Arshad Matin, a more than two-decade veteran of software and information technology sectors, has been appointed to serve as chairman of the board of directors at Virginia-based professional services provider ASGN. He has served as an independent board member of ASGN since June 2014 and will assume chairmanship when the retiring Jeremy Jones completes his term on June 18, the company said Monday.
Accent Controls Inc. has won a five-year, $72.5 million contract to support a Defense Logistics Agency unit responsible for warehousing and distributing materials at Naval Base San Diego. The agency received seven offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity DLA Distribution San Diego support contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Microsoft and Thales have partnered to integrate two offerings in a push to help highly regulated sectors protect sensitive data in cloud-based Office 365 applications while maintaining privacy compliance. The partnership combined the Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and Thales' Luna Hardware Security Modules to support confidential data protection efforts in the financial services, health care and government sectors, the Paris-based technology provider said Tuesday.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2021 — Rick Ambrose, exeuctive vice president of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) space business, said his team secured a contract to manufacture its first commercial “space domain awareness†payload for a host spacecraft intended for geosynchronous Earth orbit, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2021 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) appointed Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), to Iridium's board of directors last week, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday.
BWX Technologies has promoted 32-year company veteran Jim Bittner to vice president and general manager of its Nuclear Operations Group factory in Lynchburg, Virginia. He succeeds B. Joel Burch, who has transitioned to a new role as VP of the BWXT Innovation Campus.
A BWX Technologies subsidiary has received two contracts worth $35.3 million combined to perform uranium recovery and conversion work for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and construct a research reactor fuel assembly for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Science Applications International Corp. has named David Ray, former president of FLIR Systems' government and defense business, as senior vice president for a newly formed space business organization that aims to support federal civilian, defense and intelligence customers.
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has received a potential five-year, $53 million task order to expand its cyber-related studies with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. "The initiatives, innovations and technologies we develop through secure cyber systems engineering, agile development and rapid prototyping will enhance the Army against emerging and dynamic threats," said Jonathan Sholtis, senior vice president of ICF's cybersecurity services and solutions business.
