Christopher O’Donnell, acting assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Defense, will keynote a Nov. 3 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to provide insight into the Pentagon’s current priorities to advance capabilities for the U.S. military. O’Donnell ...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has received a $591.6 million modification under the U.S. Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle acquisition contract to produce additional military trucks and trailers. This award covers the delivery of 1,669 JLTV tucks, 868 trailers and associated kits and components to domestic and foreign militar...
MarkLogic, a data integration and management company backed by private equity firm Vector Capital, has purchased semantic platform vendor Smartlogic in a move to offer integrated tools that could help public and private sector customers gain insight from datasets. San Jose, California-based Smartlogic has worked with clients at government, energy, h...
Elizabeth Bradford, formerly Jacobs‘ (NYSE: J) global technology leader for resilient and sustainable infrastructure planning, was named as vice president and national resilience lead at Michael Baker International. Bradford will drive Michael Baker’s delivery of sustainability and resiliency services to customers from a wide range of ma...
Kevin Randall, formerly a business development director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined World Wide Technology to serve as client director for federal systems integrators, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. Randall brings experience leading services in support of a wide range of federal agencies and military organizati...
ExecutiveBiz featured Ed Sheehan, Jr., president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about the company’s annual report results, information technology modernization efforts, recent senior leadership additions and development of energy security plans for the U.S...
The U.S. Army has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential $1.6 billion contract for commercial software, hardware and related incidental services. Army Contracting Command received 50 offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate funds upon award of each task order, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The vendors will compete ...
Matt Cole was appointed as Idemia‘s group executive vice president of its public security and identity business and will be responsible for managing the unit as it provides governments and organizations with identity technologies and expertise in biometrics and artificial intelligence. Pierre Barrial, president and CEO of Idemia, said in a sta...
Brian Robison, vice president of solutions strategy and chief evangelist at BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), said agencies should redirect their security initiatives toward people, apps and data to keep up and meet the needs of a mobile workforce. Robison wrote that securing apps and data starts with user identification and transitioning to a continuous authe...
NASA and a Battelle business that manages the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory are calling for initial designs of a fission surface power system that can support future missions on the moon. A newly released solicitation from Battelle Energy Alliance and NASA details a need for a power source that can withstand lunar environments...
