President Joe Biden intends to nominate Frank Calvelli, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition. Calvelli has 34 years of intelligence community experience that includes service at the National Reconnaissance Office, the White House said Wednesday. He worked as NRO&...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has promoted its federal health executive Sarah Carter to vice president of growth for the company’s federal civilian sector, G2xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. Carter is a more-than-two-decade industry veteran with experience in the design, implementation and administration of technologies and services i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable how government agencies were able to move to cloud amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the help from the Federal Risk and Aut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — AT&T has provided first responders and security personnel at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, with wireless and secure communications network through the installation of FirstNet cell sites at the U.S. Army post, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 3. Jason Porter, president of public sector and FirstNet at AT...
A Bloomberg Intelligence analyst predicts the U.S. to further adopt cryptocurrencies in 2022 amid bullish price implications and implementation of proper government regulations. Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum stand to benefit from the declining bond yields, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone wrote in a report published Dec. 6. “The...
The U.S. Space Force has released a request for proposals for a potential $99.57 million contract to provide repair, maintenance and modernization support for aging facilities, real property and equipment in support of Western Range operations, tests and launch missions at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Launch Operations Support Cont...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
On Tuesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum, which featured leaders across defense agencies, military branches and industry who joined in dynamic discussion to share the procurement interests, technology influences and strategic priorities driving acquisitions across the defense sector as agencies work to acceler...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2021 — CAES has designed and introduced a high-power radio frequency amplifier that uses custom gallium nitride packaging for enhanced heat transfer efficiency and works to provide SwaP-constrained pods, drones and other airborne systems with electronic attack capability, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Our modula...
