Posts from GovConDaily for 01/05/2016

Lou Von Thaer on His 2016 DynCorp Outlook & The Int’l GovCon Market Picture

Lou Von Thaer began a new phase of his nearly three-decade GovCon career in Summer 2014 when Falls Church, Virginia-based DynCorp International appointed him to the chief executive post. He joined DynCorp from a two-year stint at Leidos as national security sector president, which was proceeded by a decade at General Dynamics as head of the advanced information systems unit…

CACI Receives Army Facilities Intell SUpport Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International has received a five-year, $32.7 million contract to provide facilities intelligence services to the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command. The company will work to produce all-source and geospatial intelligence tools for the Army’s Facilities, Infrastructure and Engineering Systems program under the contract, CACI said Tuesday…

Jeff Jancek to Head American Systems’ LVC Training Directorate; Pete Pflugrath Comments

Jeff Jancek, a 22-year U.S. Army veteran, has been named vice president at American Systems and director of the firm’s live, virtual and constructive training group. Jancek will be responsible for the group’s business opportunity identification and LVC program execution, American Systems said Monday…

Unisys, Interior Dept Complete Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration; Casey Coleman Comments

Unisys has completed work to help migrate the Interior Department‘s Financial and Business Management System to a cloud computing environment as part of a $44 million task order awarded under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract…

NASA Completes 8 Aviation Tech Demos; Jaiwon Shin Comments

NASA researchers have collaborated with industry to research, develop and demonstrate eight technology platforms designed to reduce aviation’s environmental impact through a six-year project. The space agency said Tuesday it launched the Environmentally Responsible Aviation project in 2009 to develop new platforms that focus on vehicle systems integration, propulsion and airframe technologies…

Army FORSCOM Relaunches Intell Operations Facility in North Carolina

The U.S. Army Forces Command has reopened a 27,000-square-foot facility at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to provide a training venue for uniformed personnel and support future intelligence missions, FayObserver…

Gen. Joseph Dunford: DoD’s Organizational Construct Should Align With Threat Mgmt Strategy

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the Defense Department must identify an organizational framework that will allow the U.S. military to keep pace with new and emerging threats, DoD News reported Monday…