By Cameron Chehreh, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Intel and 2023 Wash100 Award winner One doesn’t need to look far to discover a tapestry of ways in which the federal government is successfully leveraging artificial intelligence. From the Air Force using AI to plan airlift operations to neuromorphic computing being used...
Jerry Boegler, vice president of growth for Axient‘s national security and space systems segment since June 2021, has been promoted to the chief growth officer role. He will lead strategy development, advise on merger-and-acquisition activity and supervise teams focused on business development, capture, proposal and pricing functions, Axient s...
The U.S. Air Force expects to issue a request for proposals by the end of August for a potential five-year, $200 million contract designed to address engineering requirements at Eglin Air Force Base and associated facilities in Florida. The Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements is reserved for 8(a) small businesses and will use the...
J&J Worldwide Services has booked a pair of task orders to help the Defense Health Agency maintain two military medical facilities in Hawaii. The awards, issued under a $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle, cover operation, maintenance, minor construction and repair services at the Tripler Army Medical Center in H...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
NASA is accepting industry proposals for the third iteration of its single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering safety and mission assurance engineering services. The SMAEC III procurement vehicle will support human spaceflight programs and projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Faci...
Axient has appointed Tina Leighty as vice president of quality and change management and named Bryan West as VP of the company’s logistics engineering division. Leighty started her career at Axient in 2009 and held various roles of increasing responsibilities including head of the quality compliance department and post-merger integration manag...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded four companies positions on a five-year, $99 million follow-on contract to provide the service branch with minor construction, mechanical installation and infrastructure sustainment support services. The service received four offers for the Civil Engineering Building and Utilities Mechanical Program III indefinite-deli...
The U.S. Navy has exercised an option under a five-year shipbuilding deal with HII (NYSE: HII) to procure an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in fiscal year 2023. HII will provide DDG 51 construction, engineering change proposals, design budgeting and post-delivery services to the service branch, the Department of Defense said Friday. Th...
Renewable energy provider Ameresco (NYSE: AMRC) and investor-owned utility holding company Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE: PNW) have agreed to develop a microgrid system to provide backup power for the U.S. Army and California National Guard. The first stage of the companies’ two-phase agreement involves Ameresco’s acquisition of an energy ...
