George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that government information technology professionals should adopt a user-centric approach to strengthen cybersecurity as part of their agencies' digital transformation efforts.
Read More »CAE Breaks Ground on New US HQ in Florida; Ray Duquette Quoted
CAE (NYSE: CAE) has begun building a facility at Florida's Tampa International Airport to serve as the future headquarters of the Canadian defense firm's U.S. subsidiary.
Read More »Alan Chvotkin of Professional Services Council: All the Facts Should Matter – Even to GAO
The GAO bid protest process is designed to rapidly get all of the issues regarding the protest of an agency procurement on the table and then look at how the law and the facts relate to those issues – from the agency’s and the protestor’s perspective. It is rare that …
Read More »Rich Luhrs Promoted to Comtech Systems President
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has promoted 15-year company veteran Rich Luhrs as president of its Comtech Systems subsidiary within the government solutions segment.
Read More »Federal IT Market Vet Sonja Twiford Named SAIC’s DOE Business Dev’t Director
Sonja Twiford, a 25-year federal information technology market veteran, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as director of business development for the Department of Energy, G2XChange ETC reported Friday.
Read More »UTC Secures $325M F-35 Depot Activation, Maintenance Support Contract
The U.S. Navy has awarded United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) a potential four-year, $325.2M contract to provide aircraft maintenance equipment and depot activation planning support for the F-35 program.
Read More »FAA Authorizes UPS to Operate Drone Fleet for Package Delivery
UPS (NYSE: UPS) became the first company to secure an air carrier certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration to transport packages by drone.
Read More »GAO Issues RFI on IT Modernization Evaluation Support Work
The Government Accountability Office has started to seek information on vendors that could help the agency assess its enterprise information technology needs and come up with a strategic plan to facilitate its IT modernization effort.
Read More »Report: CIA Issues Presolicitation for Potential $10B Commercial Cloud Enterprise Contract
The CIA plans to award a potential $10B contract to expand the acquisition of commercial cloud services from multiple vendors, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.
Read More »Nick Trzcinski Joins Steampunk as Defense Sector SVP
Nick Trzcinski, a nearly two-decade defense industry veteran, has joined McLean, Va.-based information technology services contractor Steampunk as senior vice president for the Department of Defense sector.
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