The U.S. government is a behemoth, sprawling across a myriad of agencies, departments and organizations. The government contracting (GovCon) community, by comparison, is a relatively small segment of that. The big players within that narrow segment are well-known. The smaller businesses, on the other hand, face intense competition to prove themselve...
Chuck Prow, CEO of Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) and an eight-time Wash100 winner, attributed the 5.2 percent year-over-year growth in the company’s fiscal 2022 first-quarter revenue partly to its continued phase-in work under the U.S. Army’s Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program V. The Colorado Springs-based government services contractor said ...
The Office of the National Cyber Director has announced the appointment of cybersecurity leaders Kemba Walden, Neal Higgins and Rob Knake to help Chris DeRusha, federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director for federal cybersecurity, meet ONCD’s mission to protect U.S. citizens in cyberspace and enable them to benef...
The Department of Defense is eyeing another interim rule for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in May 2023. Currently, the department is in the process of updating its Code of Federal Regulations to include the program’s most recent update, CMMC 2.0, which was launched in November 2021 after an internal review. ...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) posted $405 million in revenues during the first quarter of 2022, up $13 million or 3.3 percent from the prior-year period driven by revenue increase within the company’s space infrastructure segment. The Westminster, Colorado-based space technology company said it had a total order backlog of $1.62 billion and unfu...
Forcepoint‘s federal business will deliver a user activity monitoring tool to the Department of Defense’s combatant commands and fourth estate organizational entities under an $89.1 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency. DOD said Monday the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization received two proposals ...
The National Security Agency is shifting more and more of its core business and functions to commercial platforms as part of the agency’s larger modernization effort, officials say. Ryan Agee, technical director for NSA’s capabilities directorate, said the agency is currently running a data fusion and analytics environment called the IC GovCloud...
During a recent visit to Amazon Web Services (AWS) office, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the first Wash100 Award, the most coveted and acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon) to Max Peterson, vice president of AWS’ worldwide public sector business. Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting an...
Lynn Bamford, CEO of Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW), has assumed additional duties as chair of the Davidson, North Carolina-based aerospace and defense contractor’s board of directors. She succeeds David Adams, who retired from his role as executive chairman but will continue to serve on Curtiss-Wright’s board as a member, the company said Friday. Ba...
Adam “AJ” Jarnagin, CEO and founding partner of EXPANSIA, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the company’s mission to drive technology advancement and digital transformation efforts at the edge for federal and intelligence agencies. In addition, Jarnagin also discussed EXPANSIA’s recent contract award to provide the AGORA Di...
