Aurora Flight Sciences Lands Contract Modification for Navy Unmanned Aerial Cargo Platform Aurora Flight Sciences has received a potential two-year, $11 million contract modification to build an autonomous airborne cargo platform for the U.S. Navy. The Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System is an Office of Naval Research-funded program that seeks to allow remote-controlled, vertical take-off and landing platforms to perform cargo deliveries in unprepared landing sites, the Defense Department said Friday…

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Todd May Appointed NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Acting Director; Charles Bolden Comments Todd May, formerly deputy director of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center, has assumed the role of acting director at the Huntsville, Alabama-based center following the retirement of Patrick Scheuermann…

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Paul Meyer Joins Seabury Group as EVP; Charles Davis Comments Paul Meyer, formerly senior vice president of advanced programs and business development at Aerojet Rocketdyne, has joined Seabury Global Aerospace & Defense Consulting as executive VP. He will guide the company’s executives in residence team to develop new approach with the goal of meeting the aerospace and defense industry’s innovation requirements, Seabury said Friday…

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Pete Sandlin, Mario Suarez Named to Director Roles at HumanTouch; Moe Jafari Comments IT services contractor HumanTouch has hired Pete Sandlin of the U.S. Marine Corps and Mario Suarez of HP Enterprise Services for director roles at the company. HumanTouch said Thursday it appointed Pete Sandlin, formerly deputy program manager at Marine Corps Systems Command, director of strategic services and product solutions…

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Karthik Srinivasan Joins IBA as Federal IT Services SVP; Mary Dowdall Comments Karthik Srinivasan, formerly the capture and business development director at ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), has joined Irving Burton Associates as senior vice president of federal information technology services…

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ServiceNow Cloud Platform to Host NASA Shared Services Center ServiceNow will provide cloud services to NASA in support of the NASA Shared Services Center, which seeks to facilitate the delivery of IT, human resources and grant services to employees, contractors and researchers…

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GSA Urges Congress to Fully Fund St. Elizabeths Construction Project Denise Turner Roth, head of the General Services Administration, has called on Congress to approve full funding of the agency’s construction activities at the St. Elizabeth’s campus in Washington…

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November 16 Morning Report: GovCon Index Sees 2.36% Drop for the Week The GovCon Index closed Friday with a decline of 0.564 points to 75.400, ending the week with a 2.36-percent loss. The Index’s performance this previous week increased 2.36 percent over the past month and 7…

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