Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the meetings of President Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that ...
Thales Group has agreed to acquire a Moog business unit that manufactures radio beacons, antennas and other ground-based navigational aids intended for military and civilian use. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and Thales said Tuesday it aims to offer a comprehensive navigation technology product and maintenance service through the ac...
Michael Jensen, a two-decade U.S. Air Force special tactics veteran, has been named as chief strategy officer of Shreveport, Louisiana-based aircraft manufacturer SkyRunner. The retired USAF lieutenant colonel will be responsible for overseeing strategic partnerships as part of SkyRunner’s global defense strategy and optimizing the warfighting...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the eighth consecutive Wash100 Award to Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, during a recent visit on Monday to Leidos’ office in Reston, VA. In the highly prestigious eight-year history of the Wash100 Award, Krone is the only executive to receive the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon...
James Ward, vice president of regulated industries at Talkdesk, said agencies seeking to transform the contact center to improve the citizen experience while allowing agents to handle more complex requests should consider adopting cloud technology powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics. “Moving systems and processes int...
Noble Supply and Logistics, a small business headquartered in Massachusetts, has won a potential $263.4 million contract to supply weapon hardware and spare parts to four U.S. military branches. The Defense Logistics Agency received two responses via a competitive acquisition process for the fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contr...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is working with other agencies to replace the periodic reinvestigation of federal employee and contractor security clearance holders with a continuous vetting process as part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework. DCSA — which took over the responsibility for the management and operation of ...
Jean Lewis, a more than 30-year government business development leader, has been named vice president of strategic growth at Alpha Omega Integration, a Vienna, Virginia-based provider of information technology and business consulting services to customers in public and commercial sectors. She will bring to Alpha Omega her decades of experience in di...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking potential sources of information technology and network services to support the branch’s operations in Europe and Africa, according to a notice posted on SAM.gov. USAF expects the European-wide IT and Enterprise Network Services contract to have a ceiling value of $1 billion over 10 years. A potential contractor w...
Tyler Grinnell, former director of launch and recovery operation at SpaceX, has joined Virgin Orbit to serve as vice president of flight and launch activities. He will be responsible for driving team operational pacing and efficiencies to help Virgin Orbit keep up with a growing customer base for flight and launch services, the company said...
