The Professional Services Council and the National Defense Industrial Association have called on congressional leaders through a joint letter to prevent a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution and to speed up passage of the defense appropriations bill and the other 11 appropriations measures for fiscal year 2024. In the letter dated...
Jackie Fendrock rejoined ECS as vice president of operations and growth following a two-year stint at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal business, where she was a managing director. She assumed various leadership roles at ECS for 10 years before joining Accenture Federal Services in April 2021, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company said Thursday. Fendr...
Kyle Tobener, head of security and information technology at Copado, said government agencies looking to achieve continuous deployment of secure applications and quick return on investment and facilitate their digital transformation efforts should adopt a low-code DevOps platform. Tobener wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com how a low-code...
Joel Krooswyk, federal chief technology officer at GitLab (Nasdaq: GTLB), said the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence has opened up the opportunity for developers to transition to AI-assisted DevSecOps workflows. “By automating and optimizing DevSecOps workflows, we can still shift security left while relieving developers from the burden of...
By Cameron Chehreh, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Intel and 2023 Wash100 Award winner One doesn’t need to look far to discover a tapestry of ways in which the federal government is successfully leveraging artificial intelligence. From the Air Force using AI to plan airlift operations to neuromorphic computing being used...
Michael Baker International has acquired emergency and disaster management consultancy Tidal Basin for an undisclosed sum as both companies seek more business opportunities to support crisis response efforts by the federal government. Utica, New York-based Tidal Basin will operate as the acquirer’s sister company and both firms expect the new ...
The Department of Health and Human Services is investing more than $1.4 billion in developing next-generation vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. The funds are part of the government’s $5 billion Project NextGen initiative to enable the rapid development of longer-lasting COVID-19 vaccines, a new antibody therapy and technologies to ad...
The Office of Strategic Capital was stood up in December of last year, marking a decisive move by the Department of Defense to direct financial support to the technology industry. OSC is particularly interested in funding projects and organizations related to “advanced materials, next-generation biotechnology and quantum computing,” per rep...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
McLean, Virginia-based Xcelerate Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Tim Conway as a member of the board, Anne-Marie Evans as chief financial officer and Michael Heller as vice president of human resources. Conway, a two-time Wash100 awardee, will bring to Xcelerate’s board his federal contracting industry experience...
