Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, wrote about a recent press briefing where Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord discussed ongoing procurement reform and innovation efforts at the Department of Defense. He noted that Lord, also a 2019 Wash100 awardee, hinted at proposed fiscal 2020 National Defense...
Brian Dye, chief product officer at cybersecurity firm Corelight, has said agencies should implement data-driven security approach and open source-based tools to protect their networks from cyber attacks....
Potomac Officers Club hosted its 2019 Security Vetting Process Modernization Update on August 14th. The forum brought together GovCon leaders from the public and private sector to discuss the initial implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-9 and how future plans will continue to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of vetting...
A Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) space plane has recorded nearly 719 days in orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft in September 2017 aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from Space Coast in Florida, the Space website reported Monday....
FedPoint, a joint venture between TurningPoint and DSFederal, has won a task order to provide help desk support to contact centers administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rockville, Md.-based FedPoint said Monday it will help the CMS address technical support requests from call center customers regarding the Medicare...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $2.43B contract modification to obtain global, base, deployment and afloat spares packages for the F-35 jets of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force as well as non-U.S. Department of Defense participants and foreign military sales customers in the Joint Strike Fighter program....
The Customs and Border Protection migrated its Automated Commercial System’s collections processing functions to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) SmartCloud for Government platform in June as part of efforts to achieve cost savings and reduce its physical information technology infrastructure, Nextgov reported Friday....
This week, Capital One signed an agreement to acquire KippsDeSanto & Co., a leading investment banking firm focused on serving growth-oriented aerospace/defense, government services and technology companies. œJoining Capital One was a natural next step in the growth plan for us at KippsDeSanto, said Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and manag...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded BAE Systems a contract to integrate Block 4 modifications into the F-35 aircraft’s electronic warfare and countermeasures systems....
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential 11-year, $999M contract to manage the production of up to 112 wing sets and spare kits for the U.S. Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft....
