ICF has appointed John Rabin, most recently assistant administrator for response at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as a vice president within the disaster management practice. The consulting and technology services provider said Rabin, who has over two decades of operational experience, will help communities prepare for, respond to and rec...
Until surprisingly recently, U.S. state and local governments have had a limited awareness of populations and demographics; it’s unclear who lives where and especially what their health needs might be. This becomes glaringly apparent when a weather disaster hits. When Hurricane Sandy pummeled the northeast in 2012, followed by several other disast...
Current events are changing and shaping the military health landscape. From the global pandemic to increasingly contested environments, military branches are considering a wide range of emerging factors as they look to advance military health. GovCon Wire sat down with Corey Hastings, chief financial officer at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation f...
There are few people more qualified on the subject of wireless networking and communications than Dr. Thomas Rondeau. The highly knowledgeable, innovative official is currently steering research and development work on future generation, or FutureG, technologies at the Department of Defense as a principal director. He’s been at the DOD in var...
Palantir has received a potential $400.7 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to continue its work on the military branch’s Vantage platform. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the sole-source recompete contract enables the continuation of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, model support of the Army Vantage software platform...
Amentum posted $8.4 billion in generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, revenues for fiscal year 2024 and reported $13.9 billion in FY 2024 pro forma revenues, reflecting a 4 percent year-over-year increase associated with new contract awards and growth on existing programs. In an earnings release published Monday, the Chantilly, Virginia-...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and target sensitive government information, the protection of controlled unclassified information, or CUI, has become a top priority for the Department of Defense and its contractors. NIST Special Publication 800-171 plays a key role in DOD’s ...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded 17 companies positions on the third iteration of the potential five-year, $1 billion Public Information and Communication Services, or PICS, contract. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations competed the multiple-award PICS III indefinite-del...
SOS International has promoted Mike Franz, most recently senior vice president for corporate operations, to chief operating officer and appointed business leaders Beth Caldera and Wendy Mills as vice president of contracts and procurement and VP of security, respectively. “Mike, Wendy, and Beth exemplify the exceptional talent that drives SOSi’s...
Robert Dowling is humble about his qualifications and leadership bona fides, but his resume suggests a finance and business guru twice his age. Dowling has deep experience in mergers and acquisitions—he has successfully brought to term more than 35 transactions in the government services and aerospace and defense markets, exceeding $2 billion in e...
