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...
The General Services Administration has unveiled the lists of Phase 1 awardees under the women-owned small business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone small business and service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside tracks of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus contract program. GSA said Thursday it plans to is...
The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Metris Global a potential five-year, $100 million contract to provide training, education and development program support to help meet the needs of its workforce and carry out its mission within the Department of Homeland Security. The company said Thursday the Training and Analysis Support Services contract will run...
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the small business awardees on the FirstSource III contract’s information technology value added reseller functional category. According to an award notice published Tuesday on SAM.gov, the awards under the FirstSource III ITVAR functional category will be effective Sept. 30. DHS said there are thr...
Scott Agnew was appointed president of FirstNet at AT&T (NYSE: T), a Dallas, Texas-based telecommunications company where he has served for over two decades now, GovCon Wire has learned. Agnew will succeed Jim Bugel, who is retiring from AT&T on Sept. 1 after more than 31 years with the company. Bugel assumed the FirstNet president...
