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  • Ashay Dalvi Promoted to VP, Corporate Controller at Parsons - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ashay Dalvi Promoted to VP, Corporate Controller at Parsons

    Ashay Dalvi, formerly assistant corporate controller at Parsons, has been promoted to vice president and corporate controller at the engineering and construction company. Parsons said Monday Dalvi succeeded Rick Henderson on July 23 as the latter transitions into a new role of senior VP and finance director for the Middle East Africa region. Dalvi has been with […] More

  • Carl Marchetto Named Commercial Satellite VP, GM at Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carl Marchetto Named Commercial Satellite VP, GM at Lockheed

    Carl Marchetto, formerly president and CEO of business development consulting firm Polaris Associates, has been appointed vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s commercial satellite business, Denver Business Journal reported Tuesday. Marchetto succeeds Mike Hamel, who will oversee a joint venture between Lockheed and telecommunications firms in Saudi Arabia, Greg Avery writes. Marchetto is a […] More

  • Executive Profile: Michelle Hertz, VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at CGI Federal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Michelle Hertz, VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at CGI Federal

    Michelle Hertz serves as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at CGI Federal, the U.S. government subsidiary of information technology consulting firm CGI Group. The two-decade GovCon veteran advises CGI Federal on corporate governance, compliance, government relations and other legal issues. Hertz also oversees compliance and security programs under the company’s contracts department. She joined CGI Federal in […] More

  • Executive Profile: Vernon Butler, Managing Director of Grant Thornton's Defense-Intell Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Vernon Butler, Managing Director of Grant Thornton’s Defense-Intell Unit

    Vernon Butler serves as defense and intelligence business unit lead at Grant Thornton, with responsibility for that organization’s business development activities. He previously served as a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and led that firm’s U.S. Navy and Marine Corps strategy and organization business. Butler’s career includes roles such as Deloitte Federal Optimization executive, BearingPoint Office Enterprise […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kevin Ramundo, Communications VP for Raytheon's IIS Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Kevin Ramundo, Communications VP for Raytheon’s IIS Segment

    Kevin Ramundo serves as vice president of communications for Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business segment. He previously served as VP of communications at Network Centric Systems with responsibility over media relations, internal communications, marketing communications, advertising, digital media, corporate citizenship and community relations. He held officer-level communication roles at Goodrich and Westinghouse Electric before he joined […] More

  • Executive Profile: Lauren McGinley, VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Ethics-Compliance Officer at Noblis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Lauren McGinley, VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Ethics-Compliance Officer at Noblis

    Lauren McGinley serves as vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief ethics and compliance officer at Noblis. She oversees corporate governance, tax compliance, litigation management, real estate, employment, intellectual property and other legal matters at the nonprofit science and technology organization. Before she joined Noblis in 2012, McGinley spent more than four years at the […] More

  • Executive Profile: Jeff Handy, Fulcrum President and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Jeff Handy, Fulcrum President and CEO

    Jeff Handy serves as president and CEO of Fulcrum, where he has responsibility for the company’s performance and profitability, works to drive its overall vision and establishes its long-term initiatives. The more than 20-year technology leader with oversaw Fulcrum’s transition from a commercial products reseller into a federal IT engineering technical services contractor that works with defense, intelligence and […] More

  • Grant Thornton Adds 3 New Hires to 'People and Culture' Leadership Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Adds 3 New Hires to ‘People and Culture’ Leadership Team

    Grant Thornton has added new hires Joe Tria, Laura Sue D’Annunzio and Tracy McShane-Wilson to its “People and Culture” leadership team, where they will work on the recruitment and development of the company’s human resources. The company said Thursday Tria and D’Annunzio will work from the Chicago office, while McShane-Wilson will be based in Dallas. “Joe, Laura Sue and Tracy […] More

  • Executive Profile: Shira Harrington, Founder & President of Purposeful Hire - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Shira Harrington, Founder & President of Purposeful Hire

    Shira Harrington is the founder and president of Purposeful Hire, an executive recruiting and career consulting company that serves the job market in the Washington metropolitan area and nearby locations. She specializes in career coaching, generational diversity and recruitment and is an active member of the human resources community in Washington. She is a volunteer leader […] More

  • Elbit Systems' US Arm Forms STEM Scholarship Programs; Raanan Horowitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems’ US Arm Forms STEM Scholarship Programs; Raanan Horowitz Comments

    Elbit Systems of America has formed new scholarship programs in a move to extend the company’s support for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. The Elbit Systems subsidiary said Sunday it partnered with the Army Scholarship Foundation to establish a scholarship for the children and spouses of current and former U.S. Army members to pursue […] More

  • Software AG Receives DSS ‘Superior’ Rating; Tod Weber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Software AG Receives DSS ‘Superior’ Rating; Tod Weber Comments

    Software AG has received the Defense Security Service’s “superior” rating for the company’s procedures that seek to consider the security of U.S. and foreign information and technologies. DSS reviewed Software AG’s security vulnerability in July against the U.S. National Industrial Security Program standards, Software AG said Monday. “The rating… reinforces the commitment we have to optimize our […] More

  • Ben Edson, Sirena Johnson Named to GovCon Advisory Forum Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ben Edson, Sirena Johnson Named to GovCon Advisory Forum Board

    The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum has appointed Ben Edson of VariQ and Sirena Johnson of Thompson Greenspon to two-year terms as members of the board of directors. SECAF said July 1 Edson and Johnson will work to support its networking, thought leadership and other programs for the government contracting industry. “The addition of Ben and Sirena to […] More