While the Potomac Officers Club’s upcoming 2025 5G Summit is set to feature a host of representatives from the Department of Defense, the event is not just a networking destination for defense contractors. One key speaker especially will bring extensive insights from his experience working to spread a spirit of innovation in the federal civil...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense’s Dec. 16, 2024 final rule on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program marks a decisive shift in how defense contractors must approach cybersecurity compliance. Under the CMMC clause (DFARS 252.204-7021), contractors must meet one of three certificat...
KBR has received a new time and material, cost-reimbursable task order with a potential value of $187 million from the State Department to deliver medical support services in Iraq. Medical Support Services Iraq Task Order The Houston, Texas-based company said Monday the Medical Support Services Iraq, or MedSSI, task order, was awarded under the...
U.S. Special Operations Command has released a draft request for proposals for a potential seven-year, $2 billion follow-on contract to provide command, control, communication and computers and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance-related equipment and incidental services to the government. According to a notice published Monday, comments o...
OPEXUS and Casepoint have merged and received a majority investment from software investment firm Thoma Bravo to form a combined entity that will offer data discovery platforms and process management software to government and commercial customers in North America. According to a joint release published Monday, OPEXUS CEO Howard Langsam will lead th...
Assured Information Security has won a potential 10-year, $300 million contract to provide software, hardware and reports for virtualization and remote access. The Department of Defense said Friday the Air Force Research Laboratory launched a competitive acquisition process and received three bids for the Engineering for Virtualized Enterprise and R...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has named seven contractors on a potential $249 million indefinite-delivery contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with architect-engineer services. According to a SAM.gov posting, the awardees are AE Works, Apogee Consulting Group, Burdette, Koehler, Murphy and Associates, Guidon-SES Joint Venture, H...
Gil Herrera, the National Security Agency’s research director, has spoken publicly in multiple places about how, if a true, fully powerful quantum computer were built, it could have the potential to both drastically cut worldwide energy consumption but also, if in the wrong hands, handily dismantle the world’s economy. He revisited those th...
Bryce Lyons has been named vice president of business development at Frontier Technology Inc., the executive announced in a LinkedIn post. In his new role at FTI, Lyons will leverage his experience in business development management within the small and mid-size business sector. He brings knowledge of corporate scaling, team building...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index marked its best-day performance to start the shortened trading week but slumped the rest of the way. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, closed 1.02% lower at $5,016.21 before the weekend and lost -0.10% for the week. US President Donald Trump’s decision to delay impo...
