The Government Accountability Office decided to sustain Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) protest of a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract that the National Security Agency awarded to Amazon Web Services in July, Nextgov reported Friday. “GAO found certain aspects of the agency’s evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recomme...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) reported $2.11 billion in revenue during the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, reflecting a 4.3 percent growth from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based information technology and management consulting firm said Friday it saw its total backlog increase by 18 percent to $29 billion in Q2 FY 2022 with...
George Wilson, president of ASGN’s (NYSE: AGN) ECS subsidiary and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, will retire by the end of 2021 and be succeeded by ECS Chief Operating Officer John Heneghan. Ted Hanson, president and CEO of ASGN, said Wednesday during the company’s quarterly earnings call that Wilson, who has been with ECS since...
GovernmentCIO and its Salient CRGT subsidiary will consolidate the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enterprise information technology systems under a seven-year, $875 million task order. GovCIO said Thursday it will apply DevSecOps and Agile approaches to help the DEA build an integrated IT infrastructure for 16,000 agency users as part of th...
John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company closed two acquisitions in the mission technology area during the first quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. “We acquired two companies that provide mission technology to sensitive government customers. The capabilities include ope...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, was presented his fourth Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a 4×24 membership dinner on Tuesday evening. “Those that know Anthony Robbins recognize that he is a larger than life magnetic per...
Potomac Officers Club hosted its Winning With the Network: Securing Data in Motion to the Tactical Edge, the latest event in POC’s JADC2 Series, to bring together the members of the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry to learn more about how the Department of Defense and its commercial partners are leveraging advanced 5G,...
Terran Orbital has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Tailwind Two Acquisition (NYSE: TWNT) in a transaction that would take the Boca Raton, Florida-based small satellite manufacturer public and bring its enterprise value to approximately $1.58 billion. The boards of directors of Terran Orbital and Tailwind Two have approved th...
William O’Brien, a member of Mercury Systems‘ (Nasdaq: MRCY) board of directors since 2008 and former chairman of its audit committee, has been named as the company’s new chairman. He succeeds Vincent Vitto and brings to his new role 33 years of professional services industry experience that includes time as a global managing partn...
Barton Ledford, former chief technology officer at software as a service provider Fonteva, was tapped by B3 Group to lead its Salesforce practice, which covers work in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The two-decade technology industry veteran will oversee a Center of Excellence established to support VA’s digital transformation ...
