Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a previous Wash100 awardee, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. He tackled the company’s second quarter results and growth strategy, and talked about new market opportunities for customers, the Department of Defense’...
Shareholders at blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) approved Tuesday the proposed merger with Virgin Orbit and both parties expect the transaction to close before the end of December. The combined entity will adopt the name Virgin Orbit Holdings and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “VORB” upon closing of the...
A $770 billion defense policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requires the Department of Defense to come up with a digital health strategy for distributed ledgers and other emerging technology, The Block reported Tuesday. The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DOD secretary to find ways to incorporat...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has secured an $87 million contract to help the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office update information technology applications that support the agency’s trademark filing and registration process. Accenture Federal Services will assist the USPTO Office of the Chief Information Officer in efforts ...
Military radar testing company Giga-tronics has agreed to acquire Gresham Worldwide, a BitNile Holdings subsidiary that manufactures electronic systems for defense applications, as part of a share exchange agreement. Giga said Tuesday it will combine its operations with Gresham to form an independent public company that will offer radio frequency an...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $250 million award that increases the potential value of its contract with the U.S. Air Force to incorporate baseline engineering changes into the StormBreaker glide bomb system baseline. The sole-source contract calls for Raytheon Missiles and Defense to design, develop, integrate, test and engineer ...
Marion Ticknor, a government services industry veteran with more than two decades of human resources experience, has been appointed chief people officer of Bethesda, Maryland-based digital technology services provider DMI. Her appointment takes effect Jan. 3 and she will be responsible for ensuring DMI’s organizational culture can adapt to evo...
The U.S. Army has awarded two spots on its potential five-year, $298.8 million contract that provides for 21 chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear filters and related assembly components. Design West Technologies and HDT Global‘s expeditionary systems business will compete for each order of the Army’s firm-fixed-price contract, t...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has won a potential five-year, $75.6 million contract to supply the Defense Logistics Agency with spare parts and components for a range of Harris tactical radio systems. DLA’s land and maritime organization received two responses to a competitive solicitation for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity cont...
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) has received a five-year contract to help the Internal Revenue Service consolidate and modernize a dozen outdated agency systems into one platform using a low-code development approach. The company said Tuesday it will integrate cloud-based technologies to update workflow management, incident assessment documentation and taxpa...
