Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
John Barron has been appointed executive vice president and Mid-Atlantic regional manager at Tishman Construction, a subsidiary of AECOM. Barron will handle business development activities and company operations in five states and the District of Columbia, the company announced Tuesday. Tishman said Barron holds nearly 30 years of general contracting and construction management experience and […] More
Pat Tamburrino Jr., formerly chief of staff for the Defense Department‘s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, has been appointed director of the business development team at government consulting firm LMI. Bill Moore, LMI executive vice president, said Wednesday that Tamburrino has experience leading  large and complex organizations. A career member of the Senior Executive Service through his work […] More
BRTRC has been awarded a $9.6 million contract to provide operational and field-support services to the Army both inside and outside the continental U.S. BRTRC received the Mine Resistant Ambushed Protected Vehicles Operations Coordinator contract from the Army TACOM Contracting Center, the company announced March 24. “We are pleased to be able to continue supporting […] More
Cubic Corp. has won a 21-month, $11 million contract to provide air combat training support services to an unidentified country in the Middle East. The company will help to operate and maintain air combat maneuvering systems and also perform logistics work, the company announced Monday. According to Cubic, the unnamed country has used Cubic’s instrumentation training system […] More
Daniel Barber, former head of DRC/Engility‘s cybersecurity practice, has joined Strategic Enterprise Solutions as that company’s vice president of cybersecurity. Barber will manage SE Solutions’ cyber arm and focus on the company’s work in information assurance, risk management, continuous monitoring and ongoing authorization requirements, the company announced Monday. He will also be responsible for the company’s cyber […] More
Lockheed Martin has selected 17 charities in locations where the company operates to receive monetary donations that total $123,000. The donations were given in check by the company’s employee-run charity AERO Club, Lockheed announced in three separate releases on Monday and Tuesday. The AERO Club donated $18,000 to the United Way of Northern Utah, a nonprofit […] More
Anne Healey, formerly director of national business development at Calian’s aerospace and defense sector, has joined BAE Systems as general manager of group business development in Canada. She has been in the role since mid May, succeeding Caroline Elliott who will move into a senior business development position for the company’s Seoul-based group, BAE Systems […] More
Tony Prophet, formerly a group lead at Hewlett-Packard, has joined Microsoft as corporate vice president of Windows Marketing, Geek Wire reported Thursday. Todd Bishop writes that Prophet will start his new position in May and will be responsible for Windows Marketing’s ecosystem and assisting clients in using Windows. Prophet led HP’s printing and personal systems group in his […] More
Lockheed Martin distributed 80,000 build-it-yourself hovercraft kits at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington April 25 through 27. Silicon Valley, Calif.-based nonprofit Resource Area for Teaching designed and developed the kits for students attending the festival to promote science, technology, engineering and math, RAFT said April 25 statement. RAFT designed the hovercraft kits to teach students about friction, […] More
William Swanson, chairman of Raytheon‘s board of directors, has been inducted into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame for his work to promote STEM education for future engineers and scientists. Swanson received his award at the 2014 U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Washington, Raytheon announced Friday. “As someone who benefitted from […] More
Raytheon has selected the University of Central Florida as the winner of this year’s Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense comptetition held April 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas. The University of Central Florida and nine other universities were tasked to keep a fictional business running while under constant cyber attack, the company announced Sunday. As part […] More
Bechtel has donated $15,000 to a program in Washington state for nearly 250 students to participate in a series of mathematics, engineering and science achievement competitions, KVEW TV reported Friday. Dan Thesman writes that nearly 60 teams of middle and high school students competed in challenges related to prosthetic arms development and operation. The MESA […] More
