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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.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has decided to cancel the physical course of its cave circuit event for the Subterranean Challenge and conduct only an all-virtual competition to evaluate proposed situational awareness platforms in that particular underground environment.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2020 — Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Camille Nichols, who most recently served as vice president of business operations at Fluor's (NYSE: FLR) government business, assumed the role of executive VP for project services at Amentum, GovCon Wire reported July 16.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 22, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said adopting multicloud and automated information technology platforms could help agencies transform government service delivery and increase system security, GovCon Wire reported July 10.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 17, 2020 — Novetta recently hired Ryan Fairchild, a former department vice president at CACI International's (NYSE: CACI) national security and innovative solutions sector, as VP of enterprise solutions within the information exploitation division, GovCon Wire reported July 9.
Honeywell has established a center of excellence in Phoenix to maintain engines that power CH-47 Chinook helicopters flown by the U.S. Army and international defense customers. The T55 Repair and Overhaul CoE is close to Honeywell's aerospace business headquarters and co-located with its engine production and engineering operations, the company said Thursday.
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a contract to create an unmanned orbital outpost prototype based on the company's space transport vehicle design. SNC said Tuesday it will repurpose the 16-foot Shooting Star hardware that was originally designed to function as a Dream Chaser spaceplane attachment under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 program.
Oracle has built a cloud application system for a National Institutes of Health component to identify qualified participants for large-scale clinical trials of vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies for the novel coronavirus. The registry is designed to screen indviduals who have volunteered to join tests through the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' COVID-19 Prevention Network, Oracle said Thursday.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2020 — Cognosante hired Bridget Gauer, a federal acquisition veteran and former National Institutes of Health official, as senior vice president of strategy, GovCon Wire reported July 7.
Alexis Sulyma, who previously spent nearly 18 years at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed chief growth officer of health information technology provider InductiveHealth Informatics.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Filius a potential five-year, $70.6M contract to provide logistics support for a mobile weapons system designed to help branch's air controllers process radar and voice communications data. Centreville, Va.-based Filius will help USAF maintain the AN/TYQ-23A(V)1 Tactical Air Operations Module in accordance with original equipment manufacturer standards, the Department of Defense said Monday.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2020 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide biometric software and associated special equipment for Customs and Border Protection personnel to process and verify data on travelers as part of a potential five-year, $960M blanket purchase agreement, GovCon Wire reported July 2.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2020 — Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) space segment, has lauded Amazon Web Services' move to bring the cloud computing experience to the space domain, GovCon Wire reported July 1.
