Six senators have urged Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to issue informal guidance providing the definition of “broker” of cryptocurrency and other digital assets in a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Section 80603 of the law seeks to “provide more certainty for Americans looking to invest in these digital assets, ensur...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has promoted its federal health executive Sarah Carter to vice president of growth for the company’s federal civilian sector, G2xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. Carter is a more-than-two-decade industry veteran with experience in the design, implementation and administration of technologies and services i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable how government agencies were able to move to cloud amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the help from the Federal Risk and Aut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — AT&T has provided first responders and security personnel at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, with wireless and secure communications network through the installation of FirstNet cell sites at the U.S. Army post, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 3. Jason Porter, president of public sector and FirstNet at AT...
A Bloomberg Intelligence analyst predicts the U.S. to further adopt cryptocurrencies in 2022 amid bullish price implications and implementation of proper government regulations. Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum stand to benefit from the declining bond yields, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone wrote in a report published Dec. 6. “The...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2021 — CAES has designed and introduced a high-power radio frequency amplifier that uses custom gallium nitride packaging for enhanced heat transfer efficiency and works to provide SwaP-constrained pods, drones and other airborne systems with electronic attack capability, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Our modula...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2021 — Verizon‘s (NYSE: VZ) public sector business will support the digital modernization efforts of the Department of Energy by providing voice and data services as part of the two recently awarded task orders under the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle, Executive...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 10-year, $3.19 billion contract from NASA to produce and operate solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System in support of the Artemis program. The contract covers the production of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension boosters for Artemis IX and flight sets for Artemis IV through...
Lisa Gaisford, a nearly 27-year public and private sector veteran, has joined Amyx as director of federal civilian programs, according to her LinkedIn post. She joins the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider after her tenure as managing director at Washington, D.C.-based tech company Dcode, where she oversaw...
