Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 fame broke his silence regarding NASA’s current funding predicament to criticize the Obama Administration’s approach to space exploration.  He called the approach a “long downhill slide to mediocrity.” Qwest is merging with CenturyLink.  I know this was in Thursday Transactions, but come on, it’s a $22.4 billion deal. NSA Chief [...]

The House Armed Services Committee approved yesterday by 56-0 H.R. 5013, a bill intended to save taxpayers billions through reforms to the federal acquisition process by requiring DoD to establish better accountability systems “to ensure we get the best value for the money we spend,” according to Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), chairman of the panel [...]

The House of Representative’s top defense appropriator Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) said on Wednesday that he would rather not see U.S. companies partner with European defense conglomerate EADS to compete for the Air Force’s new refueling tanker.  “If they ask me, I am surely going to tell them what I think about it. I would [...]

Peter B. LaMontagne is President, CEO and Director of Paradigm Solutions.  Mr. LaMontagne has been President, CEO and a director at Paradigm since May 2006. From April 1999 to May 2006, Mr. LaMontagne was a Senior VP at ManTech International Corporation, where he led strategic planning, acquisitions and execution of the company?s growth strategy, and [...]

Just one transaction this week – and it’s charitable. Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) signed a DoD mentor-protégé agreement with MVLE, a nonprofit group that provides jobs and job training for people with disabilities. Northrop Grumman developed the mentor-protégé relationship with MVLE to assist in its development of federal contracting opportunities, as well as infrastructure development that [...]

There is “a lot to be done” to transition to the Naval Network Environment (NNE 2016), according to Department of the Navy CIO Robert Carey’s latest blog post.  NNE 2016 is an effort to integrate network architectures both “afloat and ashore.”  The NNE 2016 is defined as “A Department of the Navy net-centric environment that [...]

SRA International, Inc. has raised more than $132,000 for Haiti relief efforts through its program SRA CARES. Following the Jan. 12th earthquake, SRA employees donated more than $66K to non-profit organizations as part of the SRA HOPE for Haiti campaign. Together with a $66K matching donation from SRA, Project HOPE received total donations of $89K [...]

Keith Fimian is the chairman and founder of U.S. Inspect, the nation’s largest provider of residential and commercial property inspection services, producing more than 150,000 inspection reports annually. Before founding U.S. Inspect, Mr. Fimian worked for seven years at international accounting firm KPMG as a certified public accountant (CPA).  He attended the College of William [...]

Senior Fellow and Director of CSIS’ Technology and Public Policy Program, Dr. Jim Lewis spoke at the Potomac Officers Club event this afternoon.  His remarks focused on cybersecurity, and he detailed some of the greatest current threats to industry and national security, as well as some potential solutions. Much of his speech focused on China, [...]

ExecutiveBiz: Who are some of your biggest clients? Will Dantzler: We came out in 1999, as one of the first companies to offer a web based time and attendance product under the software as a service model called “easyTIMESHEET”.  We wanted to build for the company a tripod of businesses for our stability, so that [...]