The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Honeywell and SRI International to develop electronics that can easily break down once their useful life is over, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes Honeywell won a $2.5 million contract and SRI won a $4.7 million contract under the DARPA’s Vanishing Programmable Resources program. […] More

Executive Mosaic has announced its entrance into stock market reporting with a brand new venture: GovCon Index. This state-of-the-art tracker is the flagship compiler of GovCon stock market information.

Carefully sourced and monitored in real time, GovCon Index is an aggregate index concentrating on 30 high-performing publicly traded companies in the GovCon sector.

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Many businesses are trying their best to win a bid on government contracts. Many failed but the ones who succeed are great in numbers. Perhaps the question is, what exactly do government contractors do? Corporations, organizations, and private companies that supply goods and services to government agencies are known as government contractors. They are guaranteed […] More

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jason Lish, former chief security, privacy and data officer at Advisor Group, as a chief security officer responsible for leadership, strategic development and oversight for all corporate security functions. The company said Thursday Lish will oversee emergency preparedness, fraud management, physical security, government security services and corporate cybersecurity.

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Dave Wajsgras, a 14-year Raytheon executive and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, has been elected as an independent director on the board of directors of Martin Marietta Materials.

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Stuart Bradie, president and CEO of KBR, said the company's leadership team pursued a strategy five years ago to expand its government services market presence.

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Vectrus announced on Thursday that Mario Coracides has been appointed senior vice president of enterprise vectrus operations. Coracides will provide leadership for a primary dimension of the business, which includes business advisory and program initiatives. 

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon's intelligence, information and services segment, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the development of “organic” R&D and securing major contracts from several federal agencies. This marks the fifth consecutive Wash100 award for Wajsgras.

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The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has partnered with Splunk to automate the process for analysts to detect, examine and respond to cyber threats.

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A Visiongain forecast, released by ReportLinker, says military sensor technology adoption will help drive the global sensor fusion market between 2019 and 2029. ReportLinker said Thursday the market will experience growth over the next decade as military organizations seek to obtain insights from sensor data. The report also provides an analysis of the following key industry […] More

The White House will administer a meeting with several government, commercial and academic entities to discuss ways to apply quantum computing technology in national security missions, Reuters reported Monday. AT&T, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell International are expected to participate in the forum. Jake Taylor, assistant director for quantum information science at the White House’s Office of […] More

Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More