Jim Gavrilis, a defense industry veteran, has been appointed president and CEO of newly created High Point Aerotechnologies. High Point is a holding company of private investment firm Highlander Partners that will focus on acquiring and developing emerging technologies, operating companies and experts in the counter-unmanned aircraft systems industr...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has put out three funding opportunity notices as part of the Biden administration’s $45 billion investment plan to ensure people in the U.S. have access to high-speed internet by the end of the decade. NTIA will be responsible for administering and implementing the Internet for All...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report outlining key takeaways from the speech of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on fiscal year 2023 budget request and the National Defense Strategy at the Reagan Institute. Hicks, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, noted that the Department of Defense’s $773 billion budget proposal for FY 20...
The General Services Administration is soliciting industry feedback on draft language outlining changes to the requests for proposals for the small business-focused Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. The draft language makes clarifications to Small Business Administration mentor-protege arra...
Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) is preparing to buy ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) and an acquisition of the Herndon, Virginia-based government services contractor by the global investment firm could be worth $4 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday. Friday’s closing price for ManTech stock was $81.97, which gave the company a market value of $3...
Top U.S. Navy officials are pushing for more unmanned vehicles and finding new applications for existing platforms as the service redesigns for a new era of near-peer competition. Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the Navy, said that in today’s threat environment, which is “characterized by rapid mobility, anti-access/aerial denial systems and cyber...
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has agreed to acquire business intelligence and strategic advisory firm Next5 for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to pursue growth, expand its line of cybersecurity platforms and support its customers in navigating cyberthreats and meeting their missions. Bryan Ware, founder and CEO of Next5, will serve as CEO of L...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, the FBI and international partners have issued a joint advisory offering several measures managed service providers and customers can take to protect themselves from malicious cyber actors. The advisory outlines baseline security measures and controls that should be ...
The U.S. government is a behemoth, sprawling across a myriad of agencies, departments and organizations. The government contracting (GovCon) community, by comparison, is a relatively small segment of that. The big players within that narrow segment are well-known. The smaller businesses, on the other hand, face intense competition to prove themselve...
Chuck Prow, CEO of Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) and an eight-time Wash100 winner, attributed the 5.2 percent year-over-year growth in the company’s fiscal 2022 first-quarter revenue partly to its continued phase-in work under the U.S. Army’s Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program V. The Colorado Springs-based government services contractor said ...
