Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has secured a potential $1.2 billion task order from the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity tools and related services for 13 government agencies. The company said Thursday the three-year award in support of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigatio...
Jordan Burris, former head of public sector strategy at Socure, has been elevated to vice president and general manager of public sector solutions at the artificial intelligence company. In his new role, Burris will oversee Socure’s team that collaborates with agencies to expedite taxpayer fraud losses and enlist inclusive access to gover...
In GovCon Wire’s latest Executive Spotlight interview, we sat down with Ashutosh Gokhale, chief financial officer and senior vice president of business management at HII Mission Technologies, to learn more about the company’s culture and its future endeavors. Since he joined HII in 2021, Gokhale has been responsible for Mission Technologies’ ...
MOXFIVE has received a growth investment from private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners, bringing resources and new expertise to the cybersecurity company’s operations. Falfurrias said Wednesday Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) served as MOXFIVE’s financial adviser in the transaction. Mike Wager will continue to serve as CEO of MOXFIVE...
The foreign military sales process, wherein international governments seek armaments and defense support from the U.S., is a complicated and highly bureaucratic system that stretches across multiple major agencies, not just the Department of Defense. Officials blame slow industrial base production, lack of Congressional funding and diffuse proc...
Jeremy Nance, most recently V2X’s (NYSE: VVX) vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer, has taken on the role of general counsel at the McLean, Virginia-based technology company. The company said Tuesday he will report directly to V2X President and CEO Jeremy Wensinger as part of the executive team. Nance will oversee al...
The Defense Intelligence Agency is working on an artificial intelligence-powered system that once deployed will be able to quickly sift through vast amounts of data, perform intelligence analysis and help DIA analysts to focus on more complex intelligence tasks. This program has made significant progress thus far. But what’s next for MAR...
Scott Agnew was appointed president of FirstNet at AT&T (NYSE: T), a Dallas, Texas-based telecommunications company where he has served for over two decades now, GovCon Wire has learned. Agnew will succeed Jim Bugel, who is retiring from AT&T on Sept. 1 after more than 31 years with the company. Bugel assumed the FirstNet president...
By Kim Koster, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Unanet In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. federal government delivered a record $765 billion in contract awards. Almost all of these are competed over and require extensive investment to even be in consideration for the award. As a consequence, government contracting companies must not spread ...
Just before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bradford Powell joined U.S. Air Force ROTC at the University of Iowa because he wanted to actively serve the country after graduation, rather than sit idly behind a desk. As fate would have it though, post-9/11, he became an acquisition officer and ended up doing a fair amount...
