The U.S. government has arrived at a seemingly widespread acceptance of the importance of maintaining and evolving its cybersecurity protections, particularly within the Intelligence Community. Without these measures, classified information could be at risk from both state-based and independent bad actors from across the globe looking to exploit vul...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with leaders of eight large primes to discuss strategic priorities for the Pentagon and business challenges facing the industry. DOD said Tuesday executives at BAE Systems, Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), HII (NYSE: HII), L3Harris ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force to equip two additional E-11A modified Bombardier aircraft with an airborne communications relay and gateway system. The award was made under a $3.6 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering the development, testing, integration and sustainment of the...
Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic founder and CEO Jim Garrettson. Keene has been chosen five times to the Wash100 list and her selection this year is in recognition of her company’s strategy to invest in and align with areas it...
Edgesource has acquired data analytics services provider Auspex in a transaction that will broaden its capabilities in the national security sector. Founded in 2015, Auspex is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that provides data analytics, cybersecurity, data operations, management consulting and operations research support for the Dep...
Angelique Napoleon, former cyber solutions engineer at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been promoted to solutions director of homeland security and intelligence market areas under the GDIT organization. Napoleon joined GDIT in April and has more than two decades of cybersecurity and technical support experienc...
Client Solution Architects, a digital transformation and IT services consulting firm, is positioned at a critical point in the GovCon market. After successfully graduating from the Small Business Administration program, CSA has transitioned from a small-sized business to a mid-tier organization that competes with some of GovCon’s big players. GovC...
Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) bid to purchase VMware (NYSE: VMW) via an approximately $61 billion cash-and-stock transaction has secured the approval of stockholders at the cloud and virtualization technology vendor. VMware’s shareholders voted in favor of the acquisition at a special meeting held Friday, the company said. The vote occurred five...
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) will compete to supply equipment for military construction projects under a Defense Logistics Agency contract worth potentially $1.28 billion over five years. DLA received three responses to a competitive acquisition process for the economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery requirements type contract, the Defense Departm...
Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...
