Joey Hoskins, most recently the director of business development at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has been elevated to a vice president position. He succeeds Mark Barth, who was appointed business manager for a BWXT-led joint venture that won the Department of Energy’s $21 billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract in ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 2, 2021 — MetTel and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will collaborate on the delivery of digital transformation services to U.S. government clients, with the latter company already working on updating a federal agency customer’s aging telecommunications services into an SD-WAN and IP voice archit...
Jeffrey Phelan, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, said agencies need to implement certain best practices to protect data and information technology infrastructure from ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. Phelan wrote that there are four steps agencies can do to secure data across on-premises and cloud environments and the fir...
The U.S. Navy has awarded four five-year contracts worth $1.74 billion combined to procure maintenance, repair and modernization services for non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious ships. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts covering lots 1 through 4 include scheduled docking and non-docking, continuous and eme...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
The Office of Management and Budget has introduced a three-part framework that serves as a roadmap for advancing the Biden administration’s management priorities to strengthen the federal government’s capacity to deliver results to all U.S. citizens. The Biden-Harris Management Agenda Vision has three priorities: strengthening and empowe...
Patrick Murphy, president and CEO of Axient, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He discussed the company rebranding and how the move supports the innovation efforts of Axient and the mission of its customers. Murphy also talked about Axient’s strategic organization, advancement in digital...
Voyager Space has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Space Micro, a San Diego-based maker of satellite communications, electro-optical and digital systems, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its technology portfolio in support of defense, civil and commercial customers. “The satellite constellation market stand...
