Traditional and nontraditional contractors play an essential role in the Department of Defense’s experimentation program aimed at testing dual-use applications of fifth generation wireless communications technology at military installations. Joseph Evans, who recently stepped down as principal director for 5G at the Office of the Under Secreta...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicl...
WSM Pacific SIOP, A Joint Venture, has secured a potential $500 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide architectural and engineering services to a shipyard infrastructure modernization project of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. The Honolulu-based business entity will support the Navy in structural and waterfront-related...
The U.S. Air Force has named 55 awardees on a potential 11-year, $46 billion contract to perform work related to model-based systems engineering, weapons and enterprise analytics, digital engineering, Agile processes and open systems architecture. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida received 58 offers for th...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has approved 16 advisory boards to resume operations after considering some recommendations of a zero-based review of all advisory committees within DOD, Defense News reported Friday. In February, Austin ordered the immediate suspension of all 42 advisory boards to...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday featuring Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the Department of Energy (DOE), as the keynote speaker to discuss her goals, strategies and priorities for the DOE. “We want to advance, as always, the use of technology. One of the things we do in...
Susan Moreira was elevated to the role of chief growth officer at Axiologic Solutions, where the more than two-decade business development professional most recently served as executive director, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday. Prior to joining the Fairfax, Virginia-based system engineering and information technology company, Moreira spent over ...
Five companies have landed spots on a $249 million multiple-award contract to support construction projects at the U.S. Navy’s support facility in the British Indian Ocean Territory atoll known as Diego Garcia. Contractors will compete for task orders to renovate offices, replace or repair built-in equipment, work on electrical and mechanical ...
An MRM Construction Services and Sundt Construction joint venture, R.C. Construction, Southwest Concrete Paving, and Acme Construction Supply-RHB JV will compete for task orders under the U.S. Army’s airfield paving contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the firm-fixed-price contract for paving work is potentially worth $400 millio...
