by Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet As heated as competition for government contracts is these days, being good enough is, well, no longer good enough. To win new business and grow the bottom line, GovCon firms must find creative ways to distinguish themselves from the thousands of other firms that crowd the...

Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...

David Lewis, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as senior vice president responsible for the company’s maritime portfolio. He will oversee efforts to improve Leidos’ maritime capabilities and pursue strategic programs meant to achieve organic growth across the company’s maritime divi...

Over the last year, the U.S. government has cracked down on cybersecurity. Following the May 2021 issuance of the White House’s executive order on improving the country’s cybersecurity, federal agencies and their commercial service providers have been focused on complying with more stringent security standards while protecting themselves fr...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide services worth approximately $71 million to the F-35 program under a compensation agreement reached with the Defense Contract Management Agency in January, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The settlement covers refund for Lockheed’s fighter aircraft parts deliveries between 2015 and early 2020 that were deem...

Sheryl Hanchar, vice president and chief information security officer at Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business, has been named to the board of directors of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body....

The U.S. Army has commenced acquisition procedures for a set of network resiliency technologies to support the service branch’s modernization initiatives for fiscal year 2021, C4ISRnet reported Tuesday....

The Department of Defense on Friday released two memos to address key concerns identified by defense trade groups during the four daily update calls on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic led by Jennifer Santos, deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a 2020 W...

Crowley Maritime's logistics subsidiary has received a one-year, $328M contract modification from U.S. Transportation Command to coordinate the movement of Department of Defense cargo shipments within the continental U.S. and Canada....

The Defense Information Systems Agency will use the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition Assistance Contract to procure cybersecurity services instead of conducting a full and open competition for the procurement effort, Nextgov reported Tuesday....