Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 01/06/2016

Former Booz Allen Principal Michele Cook Joins KEYW as Business Development EVP

Michele Cook, formerly a principal for Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) business development center of excellence, has joined KEYW Corp. (Nasdaq: KEYW) as executive vice president of business development…

Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards

Aerojet Rocketdyne will work with the U.S. Air Force develop standards for the qualification of 3-D printed rocket engine components under a $6 million contract awarded as part of the Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation broad agency announcement…

Syn-Tech Lands Potential $92M Navy Fuel Mgmt System Support Contract

Syn-Tech Systems will provide support services for the FuelMaster fuel management systems under a potential six-year, $91.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy…

NIH’s NITAAC Hub Cuts Government-Wide Acquisition Contract Fees; Robert Coen Comments

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has lowered the fees for NIH’s government-wide acquisition contracts by up to 35 percent. NITAAC said Tuesday it reduced the fees for CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 small business, CIO-CS and value-added services due to the success of these programs…

FCW: OPM COO Angela Bailey to Step Down, Move to DHS

Angela Bailey, chief operating officer of the Office of Personnel Management, will leave her current role to serve as chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security and will start at DHS Monday, FCW reported Tuesday…

Jeff Johnson: FirstNet Sets Path Toward National Broadband Network Development

Jeff Johnson, vice chair of the First Responder Network Authority board, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the agency has implemented initiatives during 2015 to prepare for the construction and implementation of a nationwide public-safety broadband network…

Sanjiv Malhotra Named Clean Energy Investment Center Chief at DOE

Sanjiv Malhotra, a former consultant at the Energy Department’s fuel cells technologies office, has been appointed director of the clean energy investment center at DOE’s office of technology transitions…

DOE, Battelle Partner for Deep Borehole Drilling Research Project

A Battelle-led consortium has been chosen by the U.S. Energy Department to help study the feasibility of creating deep-borehole repositories in crystalline rock formations. The consortium will drill a more than 16,000-foot hole through a rock formation located near Rugby, North Dakota, in an effort to examine the potential use of boreholes for high-level radioactive waste disposal or geothermal energy development, the Energy Department said Tuesday…