Melanie Kyle Gingrich, formerly senior director of government products at recruitment company Monster Worldwide, has been named as the first vice president of training and development for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. Gingrich will oversee programs intended to educate and train contractors that want to comply wit...
Following an opening keynote address by Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, GovConWire Events moved to the second part of Wednesday’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum with a can’t miss expert panel. Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, acted as the panel’s moderator with Je...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Friday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. For today’s article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster has detailed the challenges facing supply chain executives as the compliance requi...
The State Department released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5 billion multiple-award blanket purchase agreement dubbed Access for information technology software and hardware upgrade support services, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The department’s office of information resource management plans to compete the Access BPA ...
The General Services Administration has asked industry for comments on plans to issue a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement as part of an acquisition strategy for enterprisewide cloud services. The BPA will enable federal, state and local government agencies to purchase and implement commercial software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-servic...
Arun Gupta, a 17-year partner at investment company Columbia Capital, has joined the board of directors at LMI. His work at the Alexandria, Virginia-based venture capital firm focuses on emerging technology investments across the federal services, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure and artificial intelligence segments, LMI said Wednesday. Gupt...
Noble Supply and Logistics and PAE-IMK International have won separate indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $937.5 million combined to help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain, repair and operate U.S. military facilities within the Pacific region. DLA awarded $562.5 million to Noble for Zone 1 services and $375 million to PAE-IM...
Raghu Raghuram, who has been with VMware (NYSE: VMW) since 2003, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as CEO and board member of the Palo Alto, California-based technology company, effective June 1. “Raghu is now in position to architect VMware’s future, helping customers and partners accelerate their digital businesses in this...
Siemens‘ federal arm has received a $60 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force implement energy-efficient systems at Dyess AF Base in Texas, as part of a two-decade energy savings performance contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Siemens Government Technologies said Monday it will modernize cooling, heating, lighting and water...
ARServices has won a potential $145.5 million contract to advise the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s research and development directorate on policy, financial and programmatic matters. The Alexandria, Virginia-based company will provide advisory and assistance services to the agency in R&D areas such as chemical, biological, radiological...
