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&...
Vikram Manikonda, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the government contracting industry, has been appointed chief technology officer of BlueHalo, effective Jan. 1. BlueHalo said Wednesday Manikonda spent more than two decades at the company’s technology innovation subsidiary Intelligent Automation Inc., where he most rec...
Six companies have secured contracts worth potentially $40 million combined to help NASA’s Ames Research Center develop rotorcraft vertical lift technologies. Tasks under the five-year hybrid contracts are scheduled to commence on Tuesday and will continue through Dec. 20, 2026, the space agency said Wednesday. Contractors will provide resourc...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential $61.5 million prime contract to perform a range of services in support of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s nationwide safety efforts. The company said Tuesday it will work under the Priority Services Scientific, Engineering and Technical Assistance contract to address CISA’...
Competitive Range Solutions, a Chicago-based small business, has won a potential $400 million contract to refresh technology for the Department of Defense’s global infrastructure used to collect, store and disseminate information to military personnel. CRS will perform technical support work for the DOD Information Network/Defense Information ...
Kevin Kuhls, technical solutions architect at Forward Networks, said government agencies looking to safeguard information technology systems from cyberthreats and improve their zero trust architecture should have visibility into their networks and validate network behavior by using a digital twin. “A digital twin is a behaviorally accurate softwar...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has agreed to purchase Creative Systems and Consulting for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its federal information technology modernization capabilities. Creative has been delivering digital strategy, data analytics, cloud and infrastructure platforms and other digital transformation support to federal agencies sin...
Significant leaders from the U.S. Air Force and its industry partners will discuss the information technology modernization initiatives currently driving the Air Force’s digital transformation strategy during a Dec. 15 panel discussion hosted by the Potomac Officers Club. Jim Huso, enterprise architect for CACI International, will moderate the exp...
Having millions and even billions of dollars recurring spending, the United States government and its federal agencies are known to be the world’s largest buyer of products and services. The federal government buys almost everything they need from big and small businesses. To quickly obtain their needs, the federal government made government c...
The U.S. Air Force is asking companies to review and provide feedback on a draft solicitation for the service branch’s follow-on contract for mission combat system and planning support work. Interested vendors have until Jan. 7 to submit their comments about presolicitation Mission Planning Support Contract IV documents, according to a notice ...
