President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
Private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group has purchased aircraft components supplier PCX Aerosystems for an undisclosed sum as the latter completed its acquisition of the Senior Aerospace Connecticut business from global manufacturing and engineering company Senior plc. PCX said Monday it produces flight systems for rotorcraft and fixed-wing platf...
Guidehouse and ReefPoint Group have created a joint venture that aims to help federal civilian, defense and commercial clients transform health care delivery with the use of information technology. Taurian Consulting emerged from a partnership between the two companies under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program and will o...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed leader to the cybersecurity and government contracting (GovCon) sectors as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has released his latest article with the program. Previously, Brooks discussed the details in understanding cybersecurity in our sector, its massive capa...
The U.K. subsidiary of Maximus (NYSE: MMS) has won a pair of contracts worth more than $960 million combined to help the British government provide local employment assistance to citizens who are looking for jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Maximus said Monday it will collaborate with public and private sector organizations to create recruitment, sk...
Jenn Azzolina of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Michael Daly of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) said the two companies have teamed up to develop a technology platform to help government agencies glean insights from large volumes of data while ensuring data security using plug-and-play analytics and zero trust approach. Azzolina and Daly wrote th...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a potential five-year, $447 million contract to help the National Security Agency gather signals intelligence and protect government networks from cyber threats. Work under the single-award contract will include the development of technology intended to assist agency efforts in providing data for U.S. lawm...
The Department of Defense has issued a request for prototype proposals for the Operational Spectrum Comprehension, Analytics and Response project under a potential five-year, $2.5 billion other transaction agreement with the National Spectrum Consortium. The OSCAR requirement seeks to develop a software application with automated workflows, sensor n...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has agreed to buy software company Koverse for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities. Nazzic Keene, CEO of SAIC and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said Koverse’s data management platform and track record among its government and comm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2021 — LMI has pledged to help a nonprofit advocacy group create professional development programs for the U.S. Space Force as well as the private and academic sectors through a new center of excellence, ExecutiveBiz reported April 9. Robert Lech, vice president of LMI’s defense market, said the management consultanc...
