GovConWire's Government Contracting News 7/20/2021

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Vectrus President, CEO Chuck Prow Presented Seventh Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus, with his 2021 Wash100 Award during a ribbon-cutting ceremony unveiling the company’s new office facility in Tysons Corner on Thursday. “Chuck Prow, who led IBM’s public sector through one of its most successful periods, is now guiding Vectrus, a public company, through

Executive Moves

Susan Balaguer Named Parsons Chief HR Officer; Carey Smith Quoted

Susan Balaguer, a more than 30-year human resources leader, has joined Parsons (NYSE: PSN) as chief HR officer. She will oversee talent acquisition, business unit partnership, employee engagement, talent mobility, compensation and benefits and other HR functions and will report to Carey Smith, president and CEO of Parsons and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, as

Contract Awards

4 Companies Win Spots on $240M Army Concept Development Support Contract

Four companies have been selected to provide mission support services for the U.S. Army’s Futures and Concepts Center through a potential five-year, $240 million contract. The Army Field Directorate Office in Virginia received 15 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Monday. Contractors will compete for task orders

GovCon Expert

Q&A With GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico, SVP of Information Solutions at Deltek, Discusses Significant Impact of $10B JEDI Contract Cancellation

Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek, was featured on Monday in a highly informative Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Plexico, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert, discussed the potential short and long-term implications of the recent cancellation of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract on the federal

Executive Moves

Hannah Xiu Named New CFO of Vertosoft

Vertosoft LLC has named Hannah Xiu, former immixGroup Head of Finance, as the chief financial officer at Vertosoft LLC. Hannah brings over a decade of experience supporting public sector clients across the government acquisition lifecycle. Hannah played a key role during immixGroup’s acquisition by Arrow Electronics, aligning immixGroup’s financial standards to those of a publicly-traded company.

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Former Northrop Exec Tom Vice Named Sierra Space CEO

Tom Vice, a three-decade veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed CEO of Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s subsidiary that focuses on building space platforms for both the government and commercial sectors. He joins Sierra Space as the company aims to launch the Dream Chaser spaceplane on its first cargo delivery mission to the International

Contract Awards

Navy Releases Draft RFP for $600M Product Support Management/Integration IDIQ

The U.S. Navy has issued a draft solicitation for a potential eight-year, $600 million contract to provide program management and logistics services in support of the acquisition and sustainment of weapons platforms, subsystems, system of systems and support equipment. The Product Support Management/Integration multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will be a total set-aside program for small businesses

Executive Moves

Former Honeywell VP Mark Bendza Joins Telos as EVP, CFO

Mark Bendza, former head of investor relations at Honeywell International (Nasdaq: HON), has joined cybersecurity services provider Telos (Nasdaq: TLS) as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces Michele Nakazawa, who has held the CFO role over the past 17 years and will remain part of Telos’ senior executive team to ensure a

Executive Moves

DOD Vet Lee Payne Joins Deloitte Government, Public Service Consulting Group

Lee Payne, a three-decade Department of Defense civilian and military service veteran, has been named a specialist executive of Deloitte Consulting‘s government and public service business. The retired U.S. Air Force major general joins the professional services company after his stint as lead for the diagnostics and testing line of effort for the DOD’s COVID-19

Industry News

GlobalFoundries Seeks to Address Chip Shortage via New Manufacturing Facility in New York

GlobalFoundries has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, and invest $1 billion to support the annual production of additional 150,000 wafers at its existing Fab 8 facility to help address the current chip shortage. The company said Monday it expects the new fab to result in the creation of

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 7/20/2021

Vectrus President, CEO Chuck Prow Presented Seventh Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Susan Balaguer Named Parsons Chief HR Officer; Carey Smith Quoted

4 Companies Win Spots on $240M Army Concept Development Support Contract

Q&A With GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico, SVP of Information Solutions at Deltek, Discusses Significant Impact of $10B JEDI Contract Cancellation

Hannah Xiu Named New CFO of Vertosoft

Former Northrop Exec Tom Vice Named Sierra Space CEO

Navy Releases Draft RFP for $600M Product Support Management/Integration IDIQ

Former Honeywell VP Mark Bendza Joins Telos as EVP, CFO

DOD Vet Lee Payne Joins Deloitte Government, Public Service Consulting Group

GlobalFoundries Seeks to Address Chip Shortage via New Manufacturing Facility in New York

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