The Professional Services Council has asked the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center to give the industry more time to submit proposals for a potential 10-year, $50 billion follow-on contract for IT platforms and services, and to provide more details about the governmentwide acquisition contract vehi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2021 — Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said the company and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have more than 12 years of collaborative work focused on providing the public sector with offerings developed to “enable the peak performance and pr...
Thales Group has agreed to acquire a Moog business unit that manufactures radio beacons, antennas and other ground-based navigational aids intended for military and civilian use. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and Thales said Tuesday it aims to offer a comprehensive navigation technology product and maintenance service through the ac...
Michael Jensen, a two-decade U.S. Air Force special tactics veteran, has been named as chief strategy officer of Shreveport, Louisiana-based aircraft manufacturer SkyRunner. The retired USAF lieutenant colonel will be responsible for overseeing strategic partnerships as part of SkyRunner’s global defense strategy and optimizing the warfighting...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the eighth consecutive Wash100 Award to Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, during a recent visit on Monday to Leidos’ office in Reston, VA. In the highly prestigious eight-year history of the Wash100 Award, Krone is the only executive to receive the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon...
James Ward, vice president of regulated industries at Talkdesk, said agencies seeking to transform the contact center to improve the citizen experience while allowing agents to handle more complex requests should consider adopting cloud technology powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics. “Moving systems and processes int...
CAE announced that it expects to close its $1.05 billion acquisition of the military training business of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) on Friday, July 2, after securing all regulatory approvals needed to complete the transaction. The deal was first announced in March and CAE said Monday L3Harris’ military training segment will enable it to br...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is working with other agencies to replace the periodic reinvestigation of federal employee and contractor security clearance holders with a continuous vetting process as part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework. DCSA — which took over the responsibility for the management and operation of ...
Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, believes in the patriotism of her role as head of the Reston, Virginia-based aerospace and defense company that supports U.S. policy and the mission of the Department of Defense, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “It is our moral...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said Thursday it will provide best practices for designing digital and analog systems and develop methods to detect counterfeit microelectronic products as part of the S...
