The Social Security Administration is harnessing advanced technology to enhance the user experience for its 70 million beneficiaries and drive modernization as the agency prepares to reopen its doors to the public. SSA Chief Information Officer Sean Brune said one of the main focus points leading the agency’s next phase of digital modernizati...
Steve Tolbert, executive vice president of business systems at CACI International, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the company’s position in the federal market to assist our government agencies in implementing the latest technology and modernizing their business systems. In addition, Tolbert discussed the changes that government agen...
ExecutiveBiz featured Don Heckman, director of advanced solutions at Guidehouse, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about Guidehouse’s culture and strategy critical to expanding its federal sector footprint, the necessity of having cybersecurity hygiene across the government and the impact of artifici...
Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...
Chris Braccio, vice president of human resources at American Systems, has been appointed to the board of directors for the Chantilly, Virginia-based government services contractor. She will fill a board seat that became vacant when 43-year company veteran Joe Kopfman retired, American Systems said Monday. “Her passion for her profession and deep c...
TTM Technologies (Nasdaq: TTMI) has agreed to buy Telephonics from Griffon (NYSE: GFF) in a cash transaction worth approximately $330 million to expand its offerings and capabilities in the aerospace and defense market. Santa Ana, California-based printed circuit board manufacturer TTM said Monday it expects the transaction to be immediately accreti...
Keith Cooperman, a two-decade federal contracting market veteran, has joined Millennium as vice president of business development. He will manage capture and proposal teams and oversee business growth and development operations at the cybersecurity company, Millennium said Friday. Cooperman most recently served as client relationship executive for G...
A General Electric (NYSE: GE) subsidiary has received a five-year, $149.7 million order to deliver military helicopter engine supplies to the U.S. Army. The Defense Logistics Agency ordered the T700 items from GE Aviation under a sole-source basic ordering agreement., the Department of Defense said Friday. The delivery order does not include option ...
A Leonardo DRS subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $191.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of hardware and engineering services in support of Ship Self Defense System Technical Insertion 2016 effort. DRS Laurel Technologies will perform work at its Johnstown, Pennsylvania location through April 2023 under the initial awa...
The U.S. Air Force is “very serious” about its enterprise-wide adoption of zero trust, among other key priorities across the service’s technology roadmap, according to Chief Information Officer Lauren Knausenberger. Currently, in alignment with a host of recent policy measures from the White House, the Air Force is undergoing a digital tr...
