Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has received a potential six-year, $729 million contract from the U.S. Army to consolidate enterprise resource planning systems into a single model to improve readiness and efficiency. Accenture Federal Services will provide the Army Shared Services Center with Agile development, organizational change m...
Sheldon D’Paiva of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Erik Pounds of NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) said their companies have partnered to come up with a platform meant to “democratize” access of agencies and other organizations to artificial intelligence by enabling them to layer the technology into their existing information technology environments. They said th...
A joint venture of Goldschmitt & Associates and Central Research Inc. will continue to maintain, enhance and operate the Small Business Administration’s software-as-a-service platform for the Paycheck Protection Program and provide call center support under a potential 12-month, $136.4 million contract with SBA. SBA conducted a market research...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has secured a one-year contract renewal from the Department of Health and Human Services to support data management software used to monitor the government’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration activities nationwide. HHS enlisted the help of Palantir in mid-2020 to develop and implement the Tiber...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has hired seven former military and government officials and industry veterans to serve as partners on its Washington, D.C.-based federal global business services team. The company said Monday the key additions reflect its commitment to helping federal agencies advance information technology modernization efforts. Brian Davis, a reti...
The Space Development Agency has indicated its intent to acquire launch services for a planned network of low-Earth orbit military communications satellites through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program. A special notice posted Monday on SAM.gov states the agency could remove language pertaining to “contractor procure...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), on Tuesday during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is an annual honor given to the elite members of the GovCon...
As government contractors continue to heavily invest in technology to better discover, research, qualify and bid on government solicitations, the know-how to successfully evolve underlying business processes is of the highest importance for the success of any technology investment. Private sector leaders must learn how to mature the capture pr...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three companies positions on a $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various types of commercial metal products to U.S. military branches as part of DLA’s Metals Tailored Logistics Support program. DLA received six responses for the competitive acquisition program and s...
Udaya Chundury, former chief technologist of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined information technology services provider MetroStar as vice president of solutions architecture. The 25-year management and IT consulting veteran will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of business platforms that involve big data, analytics cloud and enterp...
