Joanne Martin, vice president of strategic operations at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) health group, has been promoted to senior VP of business development within the same business, according to her LinkedIn post published Friday. Martin previously worked at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and joined Leidos upon SAIC’s split int...
Helen Soln, former vice president of proposal operations at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has taken on the same role at cyber and signals intelligence engineering company Eqlipse Technologies. She will build, manage and expand Eqlipse’s proposal development center and help identify new business opportunities in the defense and intelligence sectors, the...
Travis Johnson, a finance professional in the government services industry, has been appointed chief financial officer at Amentum. He succeeds former Amentum CFO Charlie Mathis and will oversee all financial aspects of the business, from accounting to strategic planning, the company said Monday. Johnson most recently served as senior vice president,...
Sheri Neely, former senior vice president of operations at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) 1901 Group subsidiary, has joined Rockville, Maryland-based information technology company Precise Software Solutions as SVP of federal civilian business. Neely announced her new position in a LinkedIn post, and she will oversee Precise’s work with government...
Eight companies will compete for architectural and engineering task orders under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract worth up to $200 million. USACE received 21 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract and estimated services will conclude on June 29, 2028, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The chosen vendors are: AECOM (NYSE: ACM) Arcadis H...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has appointed finance and technology leader David Farnsworth as chief financial officer and added Roger Krone, former chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a 10-time Wash100 awardee, to the board as an independent director. Farnsworth will officially assume the CFO role at Mercury Systems on July 17, and will...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
The Department of Defense announced a $20 billion increase to the potential value of a contract vehicle for technology research and development services to the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center. DOD on Wednesday listed the modification awardees under its IAC Multiple-Award Contract, saying the ceiling boost brings the program’s...
When Leidos Vice President and Tech Fellow John Mears was trying to log in to his Internal Revenue Service account, he failed, because their knowledge-based authentication system didn’t provide the proper options, mistaking him for another John Mears in a neighboring state. Aware President and CEO Robert Eckel had a similar exp...
Trish Eknes, former vice president of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, has transitioned to a new role as VP and deputy operations manager of enterprise and cyber solutions portfolio at the Reston, Virginia-based government contractor, Forum reported Wednesday. She oversees efforts to deliver information technology and cyber services to the...
