GovConWire's Government Contracting News 6/22/2022

Cybersecurity

Video Interview: GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks Talks Cybersecurity & Government Tech Market Trends

In today’s increasingly online world, government agencies are harnessing the power of digitization and cyber capabilities to push modernization. Now, more and more critical government systems, infrastructure and operations are online — but are these components protected? Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, thinks that overall,

Executive Moves

Arati Prabhakar Nominated as White House OSTP Director

Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed, Prabhakar will serve as Biden’s chief adviser for science and technology, a co-chair of the president’s

Contract Awards

NASA, DOE Select 3 Industry Teams for Lunar Power Tech Design Project

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Westinghouse and IX are set to receive 12-month, $5 million contracts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop conceptual designs of a 40-kilowatt class fission power system for a NASA-funded lunar technology demonstration initiative. NASA said Tuesday it will collect data from industry teams during the first phase

M&A Activity

Viasat Shareholders OK Inmarsat Acquisition; Richard Baldridge Quoted

Shareholders at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) approved the company’s proposed acquisition of Inmarsat that is expected to conclude in the second half of 2022, pending regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. Richard Baldridge, president and CEO of Viasat, said in a statement released Tuesday the approval by Viasat shareholders marks their confidence in the pending

Executive Moves

TAPE Appoints Debbie Gallop as Finance VP, Brian Platt to Lead Business Development

Technical and Project Engineering has appointed Debbie Gallop, formerly a vice president of NeoSystems, to serve as vice president of finance. Debbie Gallop She will oversee financial and accounting operations in her new position and will lead the implementation of Deltek’s Costpoint enterprise resource planning software for TAPE as part of her initial duties, the

Executive Moves

Tim Schmitt Named to Parsons Executive Leadership Team; Carey Smith Quoted

Tim Schmitt, chief development officer at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), will join the company’s executive leadership team on Aug. 1. He will continue to serve in his current role while overseeing the Centreville, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s mergers and acquisitions program, strategy and market research initiatives, Parsons said Tuesday. “Tim is a proven executive and driving

News

Q&A With American Systems VP John Steckel Highlights His Corporate Development Responsibilities, Company’s Culture

John Steckel, vice president of corporate development at American Systems, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He discussed his responsibilities and the efforts that align with the company’s organic and inorganic growth initiatives. The Q&A also tackled American Systems’ culture as well as the company’s use of emerging technologies to stay

Executive Moves

Former Raytheon Exec Stephen Zhang Named Virgin Orbit Investor Relations VP

Stephen Zhang, a nearly 13-year veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and United Technologies Corp., has joined Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) to serve as the launch services provider’s first vice president of investor relations. He will manage Virgin Orbit’s overall investor relations functions and advise the leadership team on matters related to the investment community,

News

Digital Corps Welcomes First Cohort of Fellows; GSA TTS’ Dave Zvenyach Quoted

Forty early-career technologists were named to the U.S. Digital Corps as the first cohort of fellows who will work with 13 federal government agencies to help them in capacity building, cybersecurity, public experience and other impact areas. The fellows who are skilled in cybersecurity, data science and analytics, design, product management and software engineering will

Executive Moves

David Gitlin Elected to Boeing’s Board of Directors; Dave Calhoun Quoted

David Gitlin, former president and chief operating officer of Collins Aerospace, has been elected to the board of directors at Boeing (NYSE: BA). Gitlin is the seventh independent director to join Boeing’s board since April 2019 and will serve on the board’s aerospace safety and finance committees, the company said Tuesday. He has served as

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 6/22/2022

Video Interview: GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks Talks Cybersecurity & Government Tech Market Trends

Arati Prabhakar Nominated as White House OSTP Director

NASA, DOE Select 3 Industry Teams for Lunar Power Tech Design Project

Viasat Shareholders OK Inmarsat Acquisition; Richard Baldridge Quoted

TAPE Appoints Debbie Gallop as Finance VP, Brian Platt to Lead Business Development

Tim Schmitt Named to Parsons Executive Leadership Team; Carey Smith Quoted

Q&A With American Systems VP John Steckel Highlights His Corporate Development Responsibilities, Company’s Culture

Former Raytheon Exec Stephen Zhang Named Virgin Orbit Investor Relations VP

Digital Corps Welcomes First Cohort of Fellows; GSA TTS’ Dave Zvenyach Quoted

David Gitlin Elected to Boeing’s Board of Directors; Dave Calhoun Quoted

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