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  • CAE Appoints Sonya Branco as Finance VP, CFO; Marc Parent Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Appoints Sonya Branco as Finance VP, CFO; Marc Parent Comments

    Sonya Branco, current CAE vice president and corporate controller, will assume her new duties as VP for finance and chief financial officer beginning May 23. CAE said Wednesday Branco will succeed Stephane Lefebvre, who will move on to take a leadership role at le Cirque du Soleil. “I am very pleased to welcome Sonya Branco in her new […] More

  • DC Public Service Commission Denies Proposed Exelon-Pepco Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DC Public Service Commission Denies Proposed Exelon-Pepco Merger

    The D.C. Public Service Commission has rejected Exelon‘s proposed $6.4 billion merger with Pepco Holdings due to concerns on the latter’s potentially diminished role in the future management structure, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Thomas Heath writes that the commission also indicated a lack of evidence to prove that the transaction will improve utilities services for consumers […] More

  • Report: UTC in Talks with Multiple Bidders for Sikorsky - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UTC in Talks with Multiple Bidders for Sikorsky

    United Technologies Corp. has confirmed that it is currently in negotiations with multiple bidders for the acquisition of UTC subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft, Defense News reported Saturday. Andrew Clevenger writes that sources have named the bidders as Airbus, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin and Textron. The report said the news comes after UTC announced its plan to either sell or spin […] More

  • Bluestone Capital Partners: Defense Sector to Start Recovery in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bluestone Capital Partners: Defense Sector to Start Recovery in 2015

    A new report by Bluestone Capital Partners indicates an improving market performance for the defense industry in 2015 after almost five years of being outperformed by the aerospace industry. The company said that businesses in the aerospace and defense sector with significant defense exposure have achieved a median trading multiple of at least 10-times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization this year […] More

  • Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion

    Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow so I think you’ll see […] More

  • KippsDeSanto's Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KippsDeSanto’s Marc Marlin: 2015 to Continue 2014 GovCon M&A Trends

    Marc Marlin, a director at investment bank KippsDeSanto, believes that the government contracting industry will see companies looking to bolster their market posture and drive business growth through mergers and acquisitions in 2015. Marlin wrote in a guest piece published Thursday on Federal Times that large, pure-play businesses in fields such as cyber, health, cloud, C4ISR and big data analytics will see […] More

  • Executive Profile: Lucy Fitch, SAIC Chief Communications Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Lucy Fitch, SAIC Chief Communications Officer

    Lucy Fitch serves as chief communications officer at Science Applications International Corp., where she leads all external and internal communications programs. Before SAIC, she held senior executive positions at BAE Systems such as Senior Vice President corporate communications and acquisitions and strategy SVP. Prior to BAE Systems Fitch was the Director for Business Development and Strategic Planning at Lockheed […] More