The government contracting industry’s confidence in its future revenues has recovered from a COVID-19-prompted dip. The market’s assurance in its ability to drive new business has increased by 1.6 percent from a year ago, returning what’s known as the GovCon Confidence Index, or GCCI, to pre-pandemic levels. GCCI is measured by Deltek’s Cl...
Sapphire Ventures will invest more than $1 billion in enterprise artificial intelligence startups, including companies focused on developing generative AI, enablers and middleware, foundation models and other next-generation AI applications. “We look forward to partnering with companies that are not only improving existing workflows and softwa...
The U.S. Space Force has released the second round of draft requests for proposals incorporating industry feedback from the first draft solicitations and describing the “dual-lane” approach to acquisition under the third phase of the National Security Space Launch program. Space Systems Command said Friday over 20 vendors participated in an ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industry proposals for a project to develop core technologies for a sixth-generation wireless network. A notice published Friday on SAM.gov states the acquisition is reserved for small businesses. NIST is looking for a vendor to design, evaluate and demonstrate artificial intelligence-bas...
To maintain preparedness for current and future conflicts, the U.S. Army has embraced the “Army of 2030,” a momentous modernization effort designed to shift the service branch’s priorities to fit the characteristics of today’s international competition and deploy the technologies necessary to succeed in the evolving battlefield. The pla...
The Swift Group, a Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider, has acquired OPS Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Holton Yost, president and CEO of Swift, said in a statement released Thursday the acquisition will help the company to execute its long-term g...
Linda Zecher, chairman of technology investment firm C5 Capital and a former executive at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed CEO of IronNet (NYSE: IRNT). She succeeds former IronNet CEO Keith Alexander, who will transition to the role of non-executive chairman, in a move resulting from the cybersecurity company’s take-private deal wi...
By Alan Chvotkin, Partner at Centre Law & Consulting In March 2016, pursuant to an initial Obama Executive Order, the National Archives published its long-awaited final regulations covering how agencies must deal with controlled unclassified information, or CUI. CUI is information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to,...
The European Commission has approved Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) proposed $61 billion acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) following the completion of an in-depth review. Broadcom said Tuesday the two companies believe combining their operations would not hamper cloud market competition and could provide enterprise cust...
Kathryn Simpson, vice president and associate general counsel of the mission systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to corporate VP and general counsel in a move that takes effect Oct. 30. She will take over the responsibility of overseeing Northrop’s legal affairs from the retiring Sheila Cheston and will report dir...
