Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will provide initial funding for five pilot programs that the Digital Dollar Project intends to launch to explore potential use cases and future designs of a U.S. central bank digital currency. The pilot programs will analyze and identify functional and technical requirements, evaluate benefits and challenges, look at use cases...
Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) for Raytheon Technologies, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award during Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 dinner on Thursday by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. This marks the second consecutive year that Azevedo has received the most pres...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to buy heavy armored combat systems, related equipment and services through a potential $1.685 billion foreign military sales agreement. The proposed FMS deal includes M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks, M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles, M1074 Joint Assault Bridges and M88A2 Hercules combat reco...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 30, 2021 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. will continue providing the U.S. Air Force with program management services and subject matter expertise to assist the service branch in managing its facilities and utility systems, ExecutiveBiz reported April 14. Work is covered by a $4.1 million modification to a previously awarde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 30, 2021 — CAES will manufacture a millimeter frequency converter to supply to an undisclosed client that develops fifth generation wireless technologies and looks to apply the CAES technology to 5G equipment, ExecutiveBiz reported April 14. The ordered mmW up- and down-converter will be designed to enable multichannel com...
Noblis will advise and assist the Department of Homeland Security on projects to defend against weapons of mass destruction under a prime contract worth potentially $99 million over five years. The nonprofit company said Wednesday it will support the DHS’ Countering WMD Office across programmatic, administrative, scientific, research and syste...
A judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims turned down motions by the Department of Defense and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to dismiss Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) lawsuit challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s decision me...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed leader to the cybersecurity and government contracting (GovCon) sectors as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has released his latest article with the program. Previously, Brooks discussed the details in understanding cybersecurity in our sector, its massive capa...
The Department of Homeland Security has released a solicitation for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III contract for information technology hardware, software, value-added reseller and IT managed services. FirstSource III is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and a total small business set-aside program...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, which marks the first time she has received the most coveted and prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). Knausenberger has been recognized as one of the most significant execut...
