Jared Vichengrad, vice president and head of state, local government and education at Rubrik, said government agencies that are moving to the cloud should come up with data protection plans and adopt zero trust data security to safeguard data from intrusions and quickly recover from cyberattacks. Vichengrad wrote that such data protection plans shou...
J.P. Foley, a GovCon industry veteran, has joined Arlington, Virginia-based federal information technology and digital services contractor BridgePhase as chief growth officer. He will oversee business development and strategic growth initiatives to drive the company’s expansion in the federal sector with a focus on the Department of Defense, homel...
The Department of Commerce has listed 15 small businesses in a pre-award notice of a potential 10-year, $1.5 billion contract vehicle for enterprise-wide information technology services. The notice, posted Monday on SAM.gov, provides the “apparent successful offerors” for the Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services ...
QinetiQ was established in the United Kingdom in 2001 when the Ministry of Defence split its Defence Evaluation and Research Agency into two organizations. The smaller of the two organizations stayed in the public sector and evolved into Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, while the larger of the two was privatized and became QinetiQ. Now,...
Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity, accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon) from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Washington D.C. “Zarate is indeed a rare individual whose expertise...
Marshall Choy, senior vice president of product at SambaNova Systems, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He discussed the company’s focus on innovation to provide real value to its end users. The interview also covered data computation and SambaNova’s partnership with a national laboratory on build...
The Naval Air Systems Command is seeking proposals from defense contractors looking to provide aircraft maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy’s F-16A/B/C/D multi‐role fighter jet fleet over a potential eight-year period. In a SAM.gov solicitation notice, NAVAIR said it will award a $152.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-...
Axiom Space has won a $228.5 million task order from NASA to produce next generation spacesuits for astronauts taking part in the space agency’s Artemis III human lunar spaceflight mission. In addition to Axiom developing Artemis spacesuit and supporting systems, NASA said Thursday the company is tasked to hold a demonstration of the technolog...
Charlie Pelham, who joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) in early 2021, has been named director of business development operations at the company’s Dynetics group. In a LinkedIn post, Pelham shared he took on the new role after serving as senior director of business development and strategy at the Leidos Innovation Center, which researches and develops ...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) will supply generators to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) for use on the latter’s work in support of the U.S. Navy’s next generation Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program. Deliveries will be made under recently awarded contracts worth potentially $120 million, the Davidson, North Carolina-based aerospa...
