Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has made another pair of promotions with company veterans Aaron Jackson and Elaine Turville now leading technology, and strategy and consulting growth platforms, respectively. Both executives have more than two-decade experience with Accenture. Jackson formerly served as digital platforms practice lead while Tur...
Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for public sector at Veritas Technologies, said government agencies should prioritize data protection by developing a detailed strategy that could enable them to quickly respond to data breaches and restore data and applications that are key to delivering services to citizens. Malaret urged agencies to imp...
Since the 1990s, American semiconductor chip manufacturing has declined while U.S. reliance on foreign manufacturers has increased, posing significant risk to national and economic security. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, signed into law in August, is changing that narrative, and domestic chip manufacturers like Intel are turning the n...
Baird will host its fifth annual Government & Defense Conference on Thursday, Nov. 17, to bring together members of the government contracting (GovCon) community for an in-person and virtual conference that will include discussions of key industry trends and market outlooks from elite leaders across our industry and the federal landscape. B...
The concept of zero trust has been widely discussed yet enigmatic in recent years; now, as the Department of Defense moves forward with codifying zero trust and putting a strategy for implementation in place, the U.S. Navy is taking a closer look at its own transition to zero trust. Scott St. Pierre, deputy director for...
Bill Bodie, a more-than-three-decade defense and civil engineering industry veteran, has been appointed senior director of development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, GovCon Wire has learned. Bodie most recently served as development director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and was a visiting fellow at th...
President Joe Biden approved a stopgap bill Friday to keep U.S. government operations funded at the existing level through Dec. 16 and head off a federal shutdown before the midnight deadline, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Senate voted 72-25 Thursday afternoon to pass the continuing resolution, followed by the House’s passage of the legisl...
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The Washington Headquarters Services plans to issue $420 million in modifications under a previously awarded $496 million small business set-aside contracting vehicle for support services to the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. American Systems, Applied Research and Associates and Modern Technol...
The Department of Energy has awarded a Fluor-led (NYSE: FLR) team a potential $12 billion contract to continue operating and managing the Savannah River Site in South Carolina for the next five years. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions will extend its environmental management and waste cleanup operations at the nuclear reservation facility through Sep...
