NASA intends to exercise a two-year option on its $500 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that supports research and engineering requirements of the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday it will extend the performance period for the Research, Engineering, Mission Integration Services Contract in a strategy to es...
Frank Kendall, who served as acquisition chief at the Department of Defense from May 2012 to January 2017, has been confirmed by the Senate to assume the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian position. He will be the 26th secretary of the Air Force and will replace John Roth, who has held the SecAF role on...
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command is seeking information on companies capable of providing scientific, engineering and technical services in support of the lifecycle of training systems based on synthetic signature generation technology. NAVSEA Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, will use the mentioned services to design,...
Angela Heise, a more than two-decade information technology and cybersecurity veteran, has joined Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) worldwide public sector organization as corporate vice president for defense and intelligence. Julia Glidden, CVP for Microsoft’s worldwide public sector, announced Heise’s appointment in a LinkedIn post Friday. Heise pr...
Dr. Raj G. Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, discussed innovative initiatives to strengthen the service branch’s warfighting ability and create a wholly integrated and holistic approach to its IT systems and development during his keynote speech at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday. If you...
GovCon Wire Events, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday, June 17th. If you missed the Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by vi...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday featuring an opening keynote address from Raj Iyer, chief information officer with the U.S. Army and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, discussing innovative initiatives and concepts that will strengthen the Army’s warfighting ability. If you missed the Army: IT ...
The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
Tony Mitchell, formerly vice president of business development and strategy at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics group, has been appointed VP of advanced technology and strategy at military electronics supplier CAES. He will be responsible for coordinating CAES’ independent research and development projects and its partnerships with governme...
A Bloomberg Government report says the federal government’s total contract spending reached $682 billion in fiscal year 2020, a 14 percent increase from FY 2019 spending of $599 billion. BGOV said Thursday FY 2020 marks the fifth consecutive year of increase in contract spending and federal agencies primarily used $1.6 trillion in enacted FY 2020...
