ExecutiveBiz News on Video 10/6/2022

Siemens Government Technologies has named Katy Nierman as its chief financial officer, transitioning her from the interim CFO role she assumed in May, the company announced on Thursday. “With an entrepreneurial approach paired with a strong track record of performance, Katy is ready to take on her new role as CFO,” SGT President and CEO John Ustica […]

Valiant Integrated Services announced on Thursday that the company has been awarded a spot on a potential five-year, $1.31 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide sustainment services and training requirements in support of fielded training systems.  Under the Fielded Training Systems Support V IDIQ, Valiant will help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain training systems, including training […]

David Hansen, former deputy executive director for passenger systems at Customs and Border Protection, has joined Cypress International as vice president for homeland defense and business systems, Hansen announced through a LinkedIn post on Monday. The executive is a Marine Corps Systems Command veteran with over 24 years of service and was most recently acting […]

Washington Business Dynamics, a veteran-owned management consulting firm, has received a $66.9 million blank purchase agreement from the Defense Health Agency for business administrative services. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the Washington, D.C.-based contractor will support the agency’s finance, acquisition and business efforts across the military health system through the BPA. WBD will perform finance-related […]

The U.S. Navy has approved the installation of Northrop Grumman‘s Electronic Chart Display and Information System into the service branch’s ships and submarines, beginning with USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Navy ECDIS was deemed by the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force as “operationally suitable, operationally effective and cyber survivable” as […]

Woolpert has secured a $49.9 million contract to help a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers center meet coastal data and imagery requirements of other military and government organizations. The three-year, firm-fixed-price contract will involve technical assistance, geospatial operations and sensor maintenance as part of coastal mapping and charting missions of USACE’s Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry […]

Redhorse has entered into a partnership with enterprise analytics provider GraphAware to offer knowledge graph capabilities to national security, defense and intelligence customers. The Arlington, Virginia-headquartered company said it will serve as the exclusive official reseller of GraphAware Hume analytics platform to the U.S. federal government sector. GraphAware Hume works to extract actionable insights from […]

Google will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal arm and Sada Systems to help the U.S. Army deploy a suite of cloud-based collaboration applications for as many as 250,000 soldiers. Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector unit, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Army’s Workspace implementation project is one of the first collaborative efforts […]

Lockheed Martin will provide M299 All Up Launchers, including support for its spare parts, to the U.S. Army and international customers under a $25.9 million contract. Final assembly and other M299 Launcher activities at Lockheed’s facilities in Ocala, Florida; Archbald, Pennsylvania; and Inglewood, California, will extend until 2025 as part of the award, the aerospace […]

The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to kick off flight experiments with a Boeing-built combat drone, dubbed MQ-28 Ghost Bat, as the service seeks to learn how to operate and integrate unmanned aircraft with its fighter jets, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Ghost Bat, also known as the Airpower Teaming System, was designed and developed by […]