Posts from GovConWire for 02/09/2015

Luanne Pavco, IBM Public Sector Services VP, Inducted Into Wash100 for Enterprise and Analytics Leadership

Executive Mosaic is honored to unveil Luanne Pavco, general manager of public sector services at IBM, as the newest inductee into the Wash100 — a group of influential leaders in the government contracting industry…

Tom Frana, ViON CEO, Selected to Wash100 for Cloud and Analytics Leadership

Executive Mosaic is glad to unveil Tom Frana, president and CEO of ViON, as the newest inductee into the Wash100 — a group of influential leaders in the government contracting industry. He first joined the company in 1992 and is a 40-year veteran of systems engineering, sales and marketing, management and customer service roles at vendor and information technology companies around the world…

DARPA Ends Phase 1 of Small Satellite Launcher Program; Bradford Tousley Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed the first phase of a program to launch small satellites into space on short notice. DARPA designed software to streamline the satellite launch, a space-based telemetry to monitor the spacecraft and automatic flight-termination systems to assess flight conditions for the Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program, DARPA said Thursday…

Three Wire Systems Lands CMS Software Contract Extension

Three Wire Systems has been awarded a $41 million contract to deliver additional CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) disruptive technology platforms to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The five-year agreement also calls for Three Wire to provide maintenance and training services for the agency’s suite of CA-made software programs, Three Wire said Thursday…

Bloomberg: Motorola Solutions Mulls Possible Sale

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) has sought assistance from financial advisers as it considers a sale of the company, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Alex Sherman and Brian Womack write potential buyers for the communications equipment developer could include private equity groups or other technology firms such as General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN)…