Trish Eknes, former vice president of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, has transitioned to a new role as VP and deputy operations manager of enterprise and cyber solutions portfolio at the Reston, Virginia-based government contractor, Forum reported Wednesday. She oversees efforts to deliver information technology and cyber services to the...

James Merante, a certified public accountant with operations management experience at public and private companies, has been appointed senior vice president of finance, strategy and corporate development at Day and Zimmermann. D&Z said Friday the newly created role will require Merante to align corporate finance and strategy-related functional t...

KPMG has won a potential five-year, $82.4 million blanket purchase agreement to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s financial improvement and audit readiness efforts. DLA’s contracting services office received four responses to the competitive acquisition for the firm-fixed-price agreement under a multiple-award contract vehicle, the ...

Kyle McKendrick, senior enterprise account executive at ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), and Daniel Gruber, specialist managing director at KPMG, said government agencies looking to drive business transformation on a modern platform should partner with a multifaceted industry team that takes a holistic approach to modernization. In a joint article published ...

Artificial intelligence has exploded across the commercial and federal spaces in recent months, especially since the launch of the generative AI tool, ChatGPT. While at times controversial, the application is undoubtedly making waves across the technology industry, and it’s poised to completely revolutionize the way humans interact with AI. “No ...

KPMG, ReefPoint Group and Serco’s U.S. arm have won positions on a potential $41.9 million contract from the Navy to provide resources and services meant to help the military branch’s bureau of medicine and surgery enhance patient access and quality of care through performance and process improvement. Naval Supply Systems Command launched a ...

James DeVaul, formerly a federal advisory partner at KPMG, has been appointed director of federal business at information technology services provider Bulletproof. The nearly 30-year federal market veteran will support Bulletproof’s growth efforts within the sector, the GLI company said Thursday. While at KPMG, DeVaul helped craft the firmR...

Melissa Jaffe, former senior adviser for data and analytics at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has joined KPMG‘s federal health practice to serve as director and provide leadership assistance in its advisory efforts focused on health regulation and policy, FedHealthIT reported Monday. The executive brings to her new role over two d...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 92 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to come up with innovative approaches to advance the development of multidomain systems. The Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting activity and received 94 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/i...

Carolyn Nash, former senior vice president and chief financial officer of Red Hat, has been promoted to the chief operating officer position and she will continue to report directly to President and CEO Matt Hicks. Nash was appointed to the CFO role earlier this year and led efforts to grow the software provider’s finance operation,...