President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bipartisan bill that will allocate $54.2 billion in total funding to support U.S. semiconductor research and development, manufacturing and workforce development to create jobs and secure the domestic chip supply. The CHIPS and Science Act will provide a 25 percent investment tax credit for spending o...
Kathrine Dass, former senior vice president of delivery operations at Ventech Solutions, has been promoted to chief delivery officer at the Columbus, Ohio-headquartered information technology services provider. Ventech said Tuesday that Dass will report directly to CEO Tonia Bleecher and lead business growth initiatives across the health care IT mar...
Doug Kumbalek, chief strategy officer and executive vice president at System High Corp., was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He discussed what he hopes to accomplish in his new role, the company’s recent growth initiatives and digital transformation efforts to stay ahead of innovation in the federal landscape....
The General Services Administration has listed several upcoming improvements to the entity validation process at SAM.gov. The forthcoming changes were informed by user and industry feedback and include step-by-step instructions for selecting an entity from the search results, a feature to ask for all entity data upfront in order for the user to have...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw its second quarter 2022 revenue from U.S. government customers grow 27 percent year-over-year and 9 percent on a quarter-on-quarter basis. Denver-based data analytics software provider said Monday total sales for the April-June period were up 26 percent to $473 million compared with 2021 figures and the growth ...
Guidehouse has combined its defense and national security segments and announced leadership changes as the firm continues to advance its growth initiatives and expand its consulting offerings. Ed Meehan, partner and head of Guidehouse’s defense segment, has been selected to succeed David Zito as chief growth officer and John Saad, partner and lead...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
ExecutiveBiz featured Rocky Thurston, chief operating officer at DMI, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He discussed his career and what he hopes to accomplish with the company. The Q&A also tackled DMI’s recent initiatives to grow its business and workforce as well as the core values that are important to ...
Jean Stack, a managing director of Baird, was recently presented her 2022 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office. “Jean Stack is on the contact list of every key CEO and CFO in the government contracting industry. Jean is the consummate networker among the elite financial GovCon execu...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) said its move to acquire cybersecurity firm EverWatch would allow it to secure “billions of dollars” worth of contracts and compete with rival contractors such as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Defense News reported Monday. In March, Booz Allen agreed to buy EverWatch as part of...
