Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 01/11/2016

Former Defense Security Service Director Stanley Sims Joins CGI as Chief Security Officer

Stanley Sims, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former director of the Defense Security Service, has been appointed chief security officer at CGI (NYSE: GIB). He joins the company after more than 30 years of federal and military service and will oversee programs to secure the company’s physical and cyber infrastructure in his new position, CGI said Monday…

Peter Blocker Joins MCR Federal as Defense Southeast Region VP; Vince Kiernan Comments

Peter Blocker, former vice president of the integrated mission systems business unit at Sierra Nevada, has joined MCR Federal as vice president for the latter company’s defense sector business in the U…

CACI Lands $81M Army Intell Dissemination System Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a three-year, $81 million contract from the U.S. Army to integrate and deploy the service’s intelligence dissemination system for tactical command information…

General Atomics Completes Railgun Projectiles Open Range Tests; Nick Bucci Comments

General Atomics has completed open range tests on projectiles fired from the company’s 3-megajoule Blitzer electromagnetic railgun designed for a Control and Actuation System. During the tests, the projectiles relayed the performance of prototype components to a ground station via a telemetry link, General Atomics said Friday…

General Dynamics to Continue Work on Navy’s Missile Compartment Program

A General Dynamics subsidiary will continue to develop a tactical missile launcher system for the U.S. Navy‘s future Ohio-class submarine replacement under an $89.8 million contract modification…

Defense News: Lori Robinson In Line for Northern Command Leadership Nomination

President Barack Obama is considering U.S. Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson as his nomination to the leadership post at U.S. Northern Command, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes Robinson previously served as deputy commander of the U…

GAO: Implemented Recommendations Led to $75B in Gov’t Savings in FY 2015

The Government Accountability Office has said its recommendations that government agencies implemented in a move to improve efficiency resulted in savings valued at $74.7 billion in fiscal year 2015. GAO said in a blog post published Thursday it achieved an average implementation rate of 80 percent for 1,800 in average annual recommendations it developed from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2015…

Two Healthcare Firms Pledge Support for USAID TB Diagnosis, Treatment Programs

The U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with healthcare companies Janssen and Cepheid in an effort to increase diagnostic technology and medicine access for patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis…