In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
ExecutiveBiz featured Rocky Thurston, chief operating officer at DMI, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He discussed his career and what he hopes to accomplish with the company. The Q&A also tackled DMI’s recent initiatives to grow its business and workforce as well as the core values that are important to ...
Jean Stack, a managing director of Baird, was recently presented her 2022 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office. “Jean Stack is on the contact list of every key CEO and CFO in the government contracting industry. Jean is the consummate networker among the elite financial GovCon execu...
Stephen Magill, vice president of product innovation at Sonatype, said federal agencies seeking to ensure a secure software supply chain should focus more on open-source software and open-source library being used. Magill discussed the open-source library and how its popularity is associated with security vulnerability. “We advocate paying attenti...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business will supply M1 Abrams tank sight units with containers to the U.S. Army under a maximum $99.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/definite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Department of Defense said Monday General Dynamics Land Systems will conduct contract work i...
QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has agreed to buy Avantus Federal from NewSpring Holdings for approximately $590 million to expand its U.S. footprint and establish a growth platform to address the defense and intelligence challenges facing government clients. QinetiQ US said Friday it expects the acquisition to close by the end of calendar year 2022, pen...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) has updated earnings per share guidance for its 2022 fiscal year, primarily due to third quarter results that include an $11.7 million writedown in a contract outside the company’s U.S. segment. The Tysons, Virginia-based government services provider now expects diluted EPS of between $2.85 and $3.05, compared to the previo...
Command Holdings, the non-gaming investment arm of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, has acquired WWC Global, a woman-owned consulting services provider to the federal government sector. WWC Global principals Lauren Weiner, Donna Huneycutt and Heidi Snell will serve on the tribally owned holding company’s executive team as a result of the...
Mark Fleming, a more than three-decade U.S. Navy veteran, has been appointed to serve as vice president of the newly created defense and government business unit of underwater remotely operated vehicle developer VideoRay. He will oversee the segment’s business development strategy and customer support initiatives in his new capacity, VideoRay said...
Consulting firm Control Risks has invested in Geospark Analytics and spun off its online monitoring platform to establish a new entity that will combine technology offerings of the two companies. Seerist, the new entity formed out of the partnership, will offer an artificial intelligence-based analytics product designed to help government and corpor...
