On March 28th, John Sanders, the chief operating officer of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will give a keynote address during Potomac Officers Club™s 3rd Annual Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. During the forum, GovCon leaders of the public and private sectors will address t...
Amela Wilson, former vice president of sensor and fire control solutions at Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT), has been named vice president and general manager of the surveillance division within joined FLIR Systems‘s (Nasdaq: FLIR) government and defense business. Wilson will be based in Washington, D.C., and responsible for defining t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 12, 2019 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) is moving to accelerate the development and delivery of emerging technologies to support customers with the opening of a new office in Texas near an Army Futures Command installation, ExecutiveBiz reported Sunday. The company said Saturday the new office i...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Greg Wenzel, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, with his first Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Wenzel for creating new solutions in IT systems and other emerging technologies. We are honored to present the most coveted award in government cont...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2019 ” Dell EMC has named Arrow, Carahsoft Technology and Ingram Micro as the three distributors under its revamped federal channel partner program, which seeks to deliver back-office resources and field sales support to partners in the distribution network, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 26. CRN reported Feb. 25 that th...
The U.S. Army has selected an additional seven companies to compete for knowledge-based professional engineering service orders under the small business portion of the $37.4B Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Service contract vehicle. The cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-plus-incentive-fee contract covers support for command, control, communications, co...
Casey Coleman, senior vice president of global government solutions at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said that agencies should implement cloud computing platforms to address the needs of people they serve and increase their confidence in the government. Coleman wrote that cloud services could enable agencies to immediately address the œtrust gap betw...
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) has purchased Arlington, Va.-based cybersecurity firm BluVector for an undisclosed sum. BluVector develops and provides platforms based on artificial intelligence and machine learning designed to help government agencies and companies detect and address zero-day malware, ransomware and other cyber threats, Comcast said Friday...
Five companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $99.9M contract to rehabilitate and replace crane platforms for the U.S. Army. The Army Corps of Engineers received nine bids for the contract via an online solicitation process and will determine funds and work locations upon issuance of individual orders, the Department of Defense said Mo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 4, 2019 ” ECS will seek to provide software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, data center consolidation, cloud migration and other digital services to a Department of Treasury agency through its position on a potential $70M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 21. The company said Feb. 21 it will compete for task ord...
