Blake Nelson, who led defense and civilian programs at service management company Pragmatics, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as vice president responsible for the management of cloud platforms and services in support of the company’s digital transformation business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. As SAIC...
Clinton Bickett, chief financial officer of global mission services business unit at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE), has been appointed by the board of directors as interim president of the business unit, effective July 6. The move comes after Charles Anderson, a retired U.S. Army major general, stepped down as president of global mission services Thursday, June...
Angela Heise, a more than two-decade information technology and cybersecurity veteran, has joined Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) worldwide public sector organization as corporate vice president for defense and intelligence. Julia Glidden, CVP for Microsoft’s worldwide public sector, announced Heise’s appointment in a LinkedIn post Friday. Heise pr...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $344.4 million sole-source contract to update MK-15 close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and South Korea. The company’s missiles and defense business will modernize the radar-guided gun systems and provide associate hardware to customers as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, th...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential six-year, $950 million contract to provide infrastructure, supporting tools and services for the military branch’s threat radar systems and combat training ranges. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received 20 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
Atlas Research and Prometheus Federal Services‘ joint venture Titan Alpha has received a task order to assess patient care access at 140 Department of Veterans Affairs-run medical centers. Titan Alpha will perform two audits, the first of which applies to all VAMCs and the second inspection will apply to the medical facilities that must take ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2021 — The Cluster 3 satellites of HawkEye 360 are being prepared for liftoff from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida to join the company’s Cluster 2 and the Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites on orbit, ExecutiveBiz reported June 8. “The preparation and launch of additional next-generation clusters is all...
Robin Carnahan, who served as director of the state and local government practice at the General Services Administration’s 18F digital service organization from 2016 to 2020, has been confirmed by the Senate to lead the agency. She helped establish 18F and worked with federal agencies to update the public service delivery process as part of...
The federal government has struggled to complete the required security clearance processes for its massive workforce. The security clearance backlog has recently been reduced due to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) efforts to streamline and digitize the clearance process. During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce F...
OpenGov, a provider of cloud enterprise resource planning software for state and local government agencies, has acquired software company ProcureNow for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its portfolio of offerings. San Francisco-based ProcureNow is a small business providing software-as-a-service offerings meant to help agencies streaml...
