Accenture Federal Services conducted a global survey, capturing insights from over 6,000 businesses and executives to identify the recent emerging industry-leading trends in the federal technology sector as a result of the unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well the future implications for government agencies. The abrupt ons...
Department of Homeland Security officials John Cohen and Melissa Smislova will deliver keynote addresses to GovCon Wire’s virtual forum on Oct. 7 to discuss the role of artificial intelligence in the DHS mission. Cohen serves as acting undersecretary of intelligence and analysis at DHS, where he brings more than three decades of law enforcemen...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit this past Thursday to bring the members of the government contracting (GovCon) community together with executives and personnel from across the federal government, military branches and intelligence community to explore the impact 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well...
NASA is inviting vendors to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for an eight-year, $480.15 million small business set-aside contracting vehicle for financial support services. The draft RFP notice, posted Friday on SAM.gov, says the agency plans to release by Nov. 24 the final solicitation document to identify a contractor that can supp...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals for novel platforms that could help improve mission effectiveness of service members and address national security challenges through the Commercial Solutions Opening process. DIU plans to award other transaction agreements to traditional and nontraditional defense contractors to develop prototypes of...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercially made lightweight technologies that could provide nuclear power and propulsion for small to medium military spacecraft sensing and communication systems. DIU said the Department of Defense will need more electrical power for smaller spacecraft as future missions will expand on new capabilities such ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2021 — Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s (NYSE: CLDR) government solutions business, said that agencies should take advantage of current tools to manage, analyze and secure data across hybrid information technology environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 30. He told FedScoop in a video interview that underst...
B&A has partnered with the Natural Products Association to provide the U.S. Capitol Police with meals and drinks during its two-day training seminar about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The recent effort by the McLean, Virginia-based information technology systems company and the nonprofit organization is meant to show the partnership’s a...
Teledyne FLIR has appointed JihFen Lei, former principal deputy and acting director of research and engineering at the Defense Department, as vice president and general manager of the company’s surveillance business, Politico reported Monday. Her appointment comes about two months after Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) acquired FLIR Systems. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug 20, 2021 — Comcast Government will help the Defense Information Systems Agency deploy Ethernet-based services in Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 states to boost network performance across the country under a potential ten-year, $76 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 4. Ken Folderauer, vice president of governm...
