President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bipartisan bill that will allocate $54.2 billion in total funding to support U.S. semiconductor research and development, manufacturing and workforce development to create jobs and secure the domestic chip supply. The CHIPS and Science Act will provide a 25 percent investment tax credit for spending o...
Don Parente, a 25-year veteran of AT&T (NYSE: T), has been named a vice president at MetTel‘s federal business where he will be responsible for driving sales to the Department of Defense and through systems integrators. In his new capacity, Parente will aim to expand MetTel’s business with defense organizations and oversee its collaborat...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw its second quarter 2022 revenue from U.S. government customers grow 27 percent year-over-year and 9 percent on a quarter-on-quarter basis. Denver-based data analytics software provider said Monday total sales for the April-June period were up 26 percent to $473 million compared with 2021 figures and the growth ...
Guidehouse has combined its defense and national security segments and announced leadership changes as the firm continues to advance its growth initiatives and expand its consulting offerings. Ed Meehan, partner and head of Guidehouse’s defense segment, has been selected to succeed David Zito as chief growth officer and John Saad, partner and lead...
Hiten Chadha, former global senior practice leader for Amazon Web Services’ federal financial practice, has joined Cherokee Federal as vice president and technology practice leader. He will oversee the development and implementation of information technology offerings for the federal government in his new position, the Cherokee Nation Businesses d...
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...
