Tag Archives: Continuing Resolution

A new Professional Services Council survey has identified five themes based on interviews with more than 22 government officials from 10 federal agencies and one of those is operational resilience and adaptability of the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government respondents in the 2020 Biennial Acquisition Policy Survey: A New Paradigm said procurement offices shifted to telework with minimal interruptions to business operations.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the new agency as well as pushing for stronger AI initiatives and improving recruitment to test the technology’s capabilities.

Corporate and trade group leaders discussed at the annual Outlook 2020 event how continuing resolutions impact the Pentagon and industry, Defense One reported Thursday.

Kevin Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech International, has said he thinks the company’s clients, capabilities and portfolios continue to align with the current administration’s budget priorities, CRN reported Wednesday. “We are seeing customers apply strong focus within the space and cyber domains with both policy and execution,” he told …

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Federal News Radio that one of the trends he sees in federal procurement is the government’s increasing interest in as-a-service business model. “It’s generally leading toward if you want to be agile, provide me as …

The Professional Services Council has notified government contractors of the potential impacts of a government shutdown on their staff and operations. PSC said Friday those impacts include the unavailability of agency contacts to accept deliveries or offer guidance to contractors; lack of contractor personnel’s access to needed facilities on government …

L3 Technologies CEO Michael Strianese told Defense News in an interview published Monday a lack of visibility over budgets as a result of continuing resolutions drives defense contractors to take more risks when it comes to research and development. “Generally, we don’t build to inventory; we build to a contract,” …

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company’s 2018 orders and backlog levels could take a hit if Congress passes another stopgap measure to fund U.S. government operations, CNBC reported Tuesday. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, stated at Lockheed’s third-quarter earnings conference call that the company expects its 2017 financials …

Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted bids to the U.S. Air Force for a program to replace the service branch’s fleet of UH-1N Huey helicopters, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The Boeing-Leonardo team offered the MH-139 helicopter as its entry for the UH-1N replacement competition as the military branch looks to …

Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said the Trump administration’s increased spending on military efforts against the Islamic State militant organization has led to a number of contract wins for the company in the defense space, CRN reported Thursday. “We have already seen a number of key wins in …

James Reagan, chief financial officer at Leidos, has said he is pleased that the federal government no longer operates under a continuing resolution. He made the statement four days after President Donald Trump signed a $1 trillion omnibus spending package to fund government operations through the end of fiscal 2017 and increase defense …

Some defense industry executives have said they expect an increase in federal defense funds under the administration of President Donald Trump amid the uncertainty in the government budgeting process, The Tribune-Democrat reported Sunday. Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., said he forecasts there would be “some growth” in fiscal 2018 …

The Professional Services Council has asked the House and Senate to approve a full-year appropriations legislation prior to adjournment in order to fund all operations within the federal government for fiscal year 2017. David Berteau, president and CEO of PSC, wrote in a letter published Monday that Congress should not pass a …

Fitch Ratings has said it expects U.S. defense spending levels will continue to remain “solid” in fiscal year 2017 and in the succeeding years based on the assumption that the budget caps will be overturned. Fitch Ratings said Monday that its credit outlook for the defense and aerospace sector has been …

Robin Lineberger took on a new position earlier this summer as a principal with Deloitte, where he advises major aerospace and defense contractors. Lineberger joined Deloitte Consulting in 2009 as CEO of Deloitte Federal Government Services after spending nearly years with BearingPoint, most recently running its government consulting and outsourcing …