Chad Kim, chief technology officer of Avantus Federal for the past four years, was appointed to the same position at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm. He announced his new CTO role in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, a little over a month after NewSpring Holdings completed the approximately $590 million sale of Avantus to Qinetiq US. The...
The cloud services segment of the GovCon market is booming as government agencies prioritize modernization and migrate to the cloud. GovCon Wire spoke with PV Puvvada, CEO of NetImpact Strategies and Wash100 Award winner, to find out more about what’s driving this growth and what’s next for the cloud services market and emerging technologies....
By Mark Amtower When I speak at Association for Proposal Management Professional events, I hear of two problem areas regarding requests for proposals that have been with us for a long time. The first is we aren’t going to win because the contracting officer doesn’t know us. The second is someone got in early and...
Brian Taylor, formerly a senior director at Modern Technology Solutions Inc., has been promoted to vice president of strategic development at the Alexandria, Virginia-based engineering and technology services contractor, according to a LinkedIn post published Monday. Taylor has held various roles of increasing responsibility during his 13-year caree...
Gary Katz, senior account executive and solutions director at MarkLogic, said organizations looking to manage and generate value from complex health care data should implement a unified cloud-based platform that could enable them to transform, curate, master and secure data. According to Katz, adopting this unified platform could help organizations ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of September 2023, ABC News reported Friday. The Biden administration prevented a government shutdown with the signing of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes $858 billion for defense spending and $773 b...
The U.S. Special Operations Command is looking to award other transaction agreements for digital prototyping of undersea systems. SOCOM will accept white papers until March 3 and may issue OTAs to multiple proposers after a competitive demonstration and assessment process, according to a solicitation notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov. The project wi...
Peraton has been awarded a $174.6 million contract to help the U.S. Customs Border and Protection manage an airborne detection and monitoring system used in air, maritime and ground surveillance. The award is for the continued provision of program management, operations and maintenance, life cycle management and mission support for the Tethered Aero...
Jennifer Hagerty, a 25-year human resources executive, has assumed the role of chief HR officer at Edge Autonomy. She will oversee diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and related HR activities, the company said Wednesday. John Purvis, CEO of Edge Autonomy, said Hagerty’s knowledge and experience will be key in building and supporting the workf...
The NATO Communications and Information Agency plans to solicit proposals for a program that seeks to buy and implement a commercial off-the-shelf software offering designed to provide command-and-control capabilities for NATO ground forces at operational and strategic levels. The agency expects the Future Land Command and Control System, also known...
