Barry Broadus, a former Dovel Technologies executive with over three decades of financial management experience, will join ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) by the end of February to serve as its chief financial officer. He will take over from Bettina Garcia Welsh, who will remain with the company as an adviser until early April to smoothen the...
Defense agency and commercial sector leaders came together on Wednesday to examine the Department of Defense’s current research and development strategies, technology innovation efforts and acquisition reform initiatives during the Potomac Officers Club’s highly-anticipated 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit. After the virtual audience heard fr...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad agency announcement framework for strategic commercial enhancements in October 2021 with commercial radar as the first focus area. The agency’s Strategic C...
Kim Crider, a retired U.S. Air Force major general and former chief innovation and technology officer for the U.S. Space Force, has been appointed to lead artificial intelligence innovation for national security efforts within Deloitte’s government and public services practice. Crider will work with government agencies to further advance their ado...
The federal subsidiary of CGI (NYSE: GIB) has secured a $250 million blanket purchase agreement to help the Justice Department operate and maintain an integrated technology platform for managing financial and procurement functions, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. CGI Federal received DOJ’s Unified Financial Management System support contrac...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Canadian Commercial Corp. a seven-year, $70 million contract to extend contractor logistics support to electro-optical infrared sensors installed on the branch’s AC-130 gunship fleet. The firm-fixed-price contract to CCC will include field-level repair, troubleshooting and operator familiarization training servic...
Officials from the U.S. Air Force and Space Force are scheduled to deliver keynote addresses at GovCon Wire’s Space Acquisition Forum on Jan. 19 to give their perspectives on the importance of technology investments for the military to maintain dominance in the space domain. Brig. Gen. Steve Whitney One of the speakers is Brig. Gen....
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has indicated its intent to procure unclassified cloud services from the commercial sector through a blanket purchase agreement. AOUSC is looking for a contractor to develop, test and produce an integrated government cloud environment for the U.S. Judiciary, according to a presolicitation notice posted on...
Chad Sweet, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security and co-founder of advisory firm The Chertoff Group, has been appointed to the board of directors of Bethesda, Maryland-based digital services provider DMI. DMI said Monday Sweet also serves as CEO of Chertoff, a member of DHS’ Homeland Security Advisory Council and an...
The Financial Stability Oversight Council has released its annual report recommending that state and federal regulators continue to assess risks posed by new uses of digital assets to the financial system and facilitate coordination to address potential issues related to such assets. FSOC said Friday member agencies should consider the recommendatio...
