Kapil Wadhera has been at Intel for over 35 years and has gained a breadth of experience from across the company — from chip design to marketing, sales to general management. Given his wide-ranging expertise, he was an obvious choice to lead one of the key Intel Foundry efforts. This initiative was created in response...
Anchored at $107.9 billion, the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2025 budget request represents a $4.5 billion increase over its FY 2024 request. With these allocations, which include $62.2 billion in discretionary funding, DHS aims to rise to evolving homeland security challenges shaped by new technologies and other shifts in todayâ...
The General Services Administration has announced that ordering periods for the 8(a) and small business tracks of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle, also known as OASIS, will cease on Dec. 19. GSA said Tuesday the OASIS Unrestricted vehicle’s ordering period will end on March 1, 2025. The agency noted that a...
The General Services Administration has announced that 100 companies secured positions on the small business pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. GSA released the list of apparent awardees on the Polaris GWAC Small Business Pool in a pre-award notice published Thursday on SAM.gov. ...
Avint has promoted veteran business executive Brian Edwards to chief growth officer and appointed cybersecurity leader Kevin Thomas as chief solutions officer as part of a push to achieve growth in the federal cybersecurity sector. The company said Wednesday the appointments mark the expansion of its leadership team and come after the launch of AREA...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded 10 companies positions on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle to acquire digital products and services to facilitate better user experiences. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the Secure, Performant, Reliable and User-Centered Experiences IDIQ is a set-aside program...
Lee Ann Crochunis is not a fair-weather healthcare advocate — she’s spent her whole career fighting to give Americans healthcare access and to improve the processes and technology around that delivery. She has logged over 20 total years with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and was named deputy director of its Office of...
Business aviation broadband connectivity provider Gogo (Nasdaq: GOGO) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire in-flight connectivity company Satcom Direct for $375 million in cash. Gogo said Monday the transaction, which is expected to be completed before the end of 2024, will expand its footprint in the business aviation market and provi...
The Department of Homeland Security is spending billions on contracts. According to a Deltek report, DHS agencies invested over $1 billion into contract awards in 2023, and by the end of fiscal year 2024, the department’s contract obligations are expected to hit up to $12 billion — over 11 percent of its $103.2 billion budget. Get...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Earlier this Summer, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, announced more than $18.2 million in Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program awards to assist tribal nations with managi...
