Five contractors were awarded spots on a potential five-year, $100 million blanket purchase agreement to deliver financial management and operations support services to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer. According to an award notice posted on the Federal Procurement Data System website, the awardees ar...
Rod Fontecilla, former partner and chief innovation officer at Guidehouse, has assumed the newly created role of chief innovation and artificial intelligence officer at Madison Dearborn Partners-backed Harmonia Holdings Group. The executive will lead the Technology and Innovation Council, which was recently established to support the capability deve...
Financial services firm Baird, which has deep involvement in the government contracting community through advisements on major mergers and acquisitions deals, has announced the schedule and speaker slate for the 2024 edition of its annual Defense & Government Conference. According to details shared with GovCon Wire, the always-vital gathering ...
Guidehouse has named Amy Howland, a veteran cybersecurity executive, as partner and chief information security officer. Howland announced her appointment at the McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm in a LinkedIn post published Monday. The Guidehouse executive brings over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and information assurance to the role...
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded six companies positions on a potential five-year, $300 million blanket purchase agreement to provide non-information technology consulting support services for the agency’s wage and investment division. According to award notices published Thursday in the Federal Procurement Data System, the awardees ar...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has recruited Kris Mork, a former Guidehouse director, to serve as chief data officer of its health and civil segment. Mork confirmed their new role in a LinkedIn post Wednesday. The biomedical and health informatics expert will drive Leidos’ data strategy and governance in support of its customers in the healthcare and...
Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) has appointed talent management executive Han-Ron Siah as senior vice president and chief talent officer and business transformation professional Arjun Reddy as mission advisory services leader. In a LinkedIn post published Friday, SAIC said Siah will oversee the company’s integrated tale...
The FBI has released the list of 95 awardees on the second iteration of the potential eight-year, $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The bureau first announced the award of the ITSSS-2 BPA on May 24 in a SAM.gov notice. According to the award notice, 31 large companies and 64...
A report by financial services company Raymond James (NYSE: RJF) shows that there were 76 mergers and acquisitions in the defense and space industry during the first quarter of 2024, a 55 percent increase from the same period the previous year and a 31 percent rise from the previous quarter. Defense and Space M&A Activity...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
