Hexagon has wrapped up its acquisition of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, a Virginia-based provider of geospatial, mobile and cloud computing software platforms to government and commercial clients. Thermopylae will operate under the U.S. federal business within Hexagon’s geospatial division, the Sweden-based precision measuring technolog...
Jennifer Pedersen, senior technical advisor of the National Risk Management Center (NRMC) for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will be featured as the keynote speaker during the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Cybersecurity Summit on May 8th. At the event GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss cyber resilienc...
Hitachi Vantara has announced the appointment of Jonathan Martin, a nearly two-decade marketing veteran in the technology industry, as chief marketing officer and Kristin Machacek Leary, a more than 25-year human resources leader, as chief HR officer. Leary and Martin will report to Scott Kelly, chief operating officer and chief transformation offic...
Gentex has won a potential five-year, $95M contract to provide tactical headborne systems to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract via a full and open competition and obligated $150K at the time of award. The command is procuring ballistic and no...
The U.S. Army Contracting Command selected the Unisys Corporation as one of 50 large companies to compete for task orders under a potential nine-year, $12.1 billion contract to provide IT services to all Army organizations, Unisys announced Thursday. Under the contract, Unisys will compete for task orders for services including cybersecurity, integr...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has received two task orders worth $96.5M combined from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical support for the service™s F-35 program and other aircraft platforms. KBRwyle will provide the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center with research, product assistance, analysis, engineering, airworthines...
American Electronic Warfare Associates has won a potential five-year, $99.7M contract to develop, integrate and maintain battlespace simulation tools for the U.S. Navy. AMEWAS will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division create warfare scenarios, and battlespace entity models as well as provide customer support for delivered products, th...
On Wednesday, April 10th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. for Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Data Management Forum. The forum featured a panel discussion about augmented data management, and Michael Conlin, chief data officer for the U.S. Department of Defense, opened the forum w...
Ed Meehan, formerly chief operating officer at Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business, has joined management consulting services provider Guidehouse as aerospace and defense segment leader. He will oversee the company™s growth strategy and introduce innovative measures, commercial practices and new capabilities to the custo...
Vertex Aerospace secured a potential five-year, $175.5M contract to help manage and maintain the Drug Enforcement Administration’s worldwide aircraft fleet. DEA announced the Total Aviation Support Services contract award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. The presolicitation notice stated that the selected contractor would support program ...
