Latest stories

  • Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer

    Guillermo Gualino has been promoted to serve as vice president and treasurer at Agilent Technologies from his most recent position of assistant treasurer. In his new role, Gualino will be in charge of the company’s treasury function and will report directly to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Didier Hirsch, the company announced Friday. Gualino replaces […] More

  • University of Utah Deploys Oracle Tech to Track Construction Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    University of Utah Deploys Oracle Tech to Track Construction Projects

    The University of Utah in Salt Lake City used an Oracle-built project management system to help run two construction projects, according to a Friday report from Automated Trader. Melissa Centurio Lopes writes that the university used the Primavera Unifier to manage the large-scale projects and help deliver them before the scheduled deadlines. Paul Bender, Oracle director of […] More

  • James Walker Named Rockwell Collins VP, Managing Director of Asia Pacific - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    James Walker Named Rockwell Collins VP, Managing Director of Asia Pacific

    James Walker has been appointed to serve as the vice president and managing director of the Asia Pacific operations of Rockwell Collins, the company said Monday. Walker previously served as CEO of AutoCRC Ltd. and was CEO of QMI Solutions Ltd. earlier in his career. “Jim brings a unique combination of regional business acumen, geopolitical savvy and […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson, Phebe Novakovic Included in First-Ever Forbes Most Powerful Businesswomen List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Marillyn Hewson, Phebe Novakovic Included in First-Ever Forbes Most Powerful Businesswomen List

    Marillyn Hewson, president and CEO at Lockheed Martin, and Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO at General Dynamics, are some of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, according to Forbes’ first ever top 50 list. City Biz List reported Sunday that Hewson was ranked seventh on the list, Novakovic twelth and Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, CEO and President was rated […] More

  • Scott Talbott Named ETA SVP of Government Affairs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Scott Talbott Named ETA SVP of Government Affairs

    Scott Talbott has been named senior vice president of government affairs at the Electronic Transactions Association, an international trade association of companies that offer electronic transaction processing products and services. Talbott will develop and implement the organization’s federal and state legislative and regulatory strategies, on behalf of the 500 ETA member companies, ETA announced Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Designates Cascade Aerospace as C-130J Hercules Maintenance Partner; George Shultz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Lockheed Designates Cascade Aerospace as C-130J Hercules Maintenance Partner; George Shultz Comments

    Cascade Aerospace Inc. now holds the distinction of being one of only two authorized Lockheed Martin C-130J heavy maintenance centers in the world. Cascade Aerospace and Lockheed Martin previously signed a 20-year support contract for the C-130J fleet of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the company announced Monday. “The addition of Cascade Aerospace as the second-ever Lockheed […] More

  • Joan Schwartz, Doug Dangremond Take VP Roles at QinetiQ Subsidiary Cyveillance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Joan Schwartz, Doug Dangremond Take VP Roles at QinetiQ Subsidiary Cyveillance

    Joan Schwartz and Doug Dangremond have joined QinetiQ subsidiary Cyveillance as vice presidents of human resources and sales, respectively. Schwartz formerly served as human resources director at Mandiant until that company was purchased by FireEye and Dangremond previously was a sales director at GTSI, Cyveillance said Monday. “There is an ever-growing need for organizations to employ global threat intelligence to […] More

  • Group of Huntington Ingalls Engineers Picked for STEM Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Group of Huntington Ingalls Engineers Picked for STEM Awards

    Six Newport News Shipbuilding and two Ingalls Shipbuilding engineers were honored at the 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM Global Competitive Conference achievements in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The engineers received the awards during the conference in Washington that took place Feb. 6 through Feb. 8, Huntington Ingalls, the parent company […] More

  • Forrester Includes CA Technologies on Service Virtualization, Testing Leadership List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Forrester Includes CA Technologies on Service Virtualization, Testing Leadership List

    CA Technologies was named a “leader” on a Forrester research list that evaluated multiple offerings from service virtualization and testing companies through 15 factors. For the “Forrester Wave: Service Virtualization and Testing Solutions, Q1 2014” report, CA Technologies received the top score in scalability and tied for the highest score in global presence and installed […] More

  • Matthew Oostveen Named VCE Asia-Pacific, Japan CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Matthew Oostveen Named VCE Asia-Pacific, Japan CTO

    Matthew Oostveen, formerly director of research at IDC Australia, has joined VCE as chief technology officer for the company’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. He spent six years in his role at IDC Australia and oversaw research in the firm’s telecommunications, software, verticals and infrastructure divisions, VCE announced Tuesday. “Asia Pacific and Japan is an exciting region […] More

  • Mark DeWitt to Speak at American Bar Association Panel Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    Mark DeWitt to Speak at American Bar Association Panel Event

    Mark DeWitt, Triple Canopy deputy general counsel and vice president, will participate in a panel discussion on overseas contractor accountability work at an American Bar Association event. The program will be hosted by the ABA Section of Public Contract Law’s Battle Space and Contingency Procurements Committee on Feb. 18 in Washington, Triple Canopy announced Friday. Discussion […] More

  • API Technologies Obtains NIST Validation for Cryptographic Module; Henry Gold Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in

    API Technologies Obtains NIST Validation for Cryptographic Module; Henry Gold Comments

    API Technologies Corp. has obtained a validation for a cryptographic module from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST issued the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 to certify the API’s common cryptographic module as complying with information security regulations, API said Friday. Henry Gold, a general manager at API, said the module is […] More