Citizant promotes new CFO, COO

Citizant has appointed a new chief financial officer, and a new chief operating officer.

Greg Gorgone was named CFO, Jeffrey Beyer was named COO. The COO position is a new one for Citizant, while Gorgone is the first CFO for the company since 2010.

“These promotions complete our executive management team and position these two outstanding partners with the authority they need to manage corporate developments in the coming years,” said Alba Alemán, Citizant president and CEO.

Salient sells ‘body-shop’ business

Salient Federal Solutions Inc. has sold a $10 million-a-year piece of business with Fannie Mae to an Orlando, Fla., company that specializes in staffing services.

Terms of the deal between Salient and Kavaliro were not disclosed. About 58 people will move from Salient to Kavaliro.

Brad Antle, Salient CEO, said the work being done at Fannie Mae was a vendor service model, where Salient was providing temporary employees in a “body-shop arrangement.” Often, these workers were in a temp-to-permanent arrangement, and would be hired full-time by Fannie Mae.

4 critical factors for picking the right customers

Despite the relatively flat federal IT budget, there is always a lot of talk about the pockets of opportunities in the market.

Nearly any presentation on the budget will include a list of areas in which the government is likely to continue to increase spending – cybersecurity, intelligence, health IT, data analytics, cloud computing, to name the most common ones.

7 grab final FirstSource II contracts

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is in the process of being updated with the complete list of winners.

Seven small businesses are apparenlty among the winners of the final spots on the $3 billion FirstSource II contract from the Homeland Security Department, the Washington Business Journal is reporting.

ManTech makes health IT move

ManTech International Corp. has acquired Alta Systems Inc., in a deal that brings the company new health IT and professional services capabilities.

A crown jewel of the deal is Alta’s position on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ $4 billion Enterprise Systems Development contract.

Lockheed restructures corporate functions

Lockheed Martin Corp. is consolidating several corporate operations in an effort to cut costs, increase coordination and drive efficiencies, in its first week under new CEO Marillyn Hewson.

In a memo to employees, Hewson outlined four moves:

The enterprise business services and corporate internal audit functions will become part of finance and business operations.

Boeing unit nabs $46M option for Navy intell work

Argon ST, a Boeing Co. subsidiary, has won a $46 million situational awareness option under the Navy’s Ship’s Signal Exploitation Equipment Increment F contract.

The Increment F contract facilitates increased data collection and better identification of any potential threats. It improves on its predecessor contract, Increment E, which had antenna, signal acquisition and direction finding, Boeing said in a release.

Jacobs wins $1.4B NASA testing and operations contract

Jacobs Engineering Group has won a $1.4 billion testing and operation support contract for the NASA at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

The contract has a base of one year and seven months, two two-year option periods and four additional option years; all together, the contract is just short of ten years.

Not already in health IT? It might be too late.

Michele Kang’s message was very clear during her presentation at the annual Raymond James Government Services & Technology Summit this week: If you aren’t in the health care market, it’s probably too late.

Kang, CEO of Cognosante LLC, founded her company in 2008, after serving as the vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s health solutions business. Cognosante has grown to $100 million in revenue and 310 employees. It was probably the smallest company to make a presentation at the summit.

DLT Solutions hires VP, expands professional services

DLT Solutions has expanded its professional services offering by hiring subject matter experts and professional engineering staff. To lead the effort, the comany has named Don Simpson vice president of the newly expanded professional services.

The additional subject matter experts and professional engineering staff specialize in Oracle core technology, E-business suite, identity management and value-added applications.