European satellite telecommunications provider SES issued a statement Thursday saying that negotiations over a “possible combination” with U.S.-based Intelsat have stopped. In late March, Luxembourg-headquartered SES confirmed that the company and Intelsat were in talks about a possible merger and noted that it was uncertain whether a deal would...
Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government group at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said fraud and scams using artificial intelligence are going undetected and that the Biden administration and Congress should prioritize actions to address the threat posed by AI-assisted fraud schemes, Fox News reported Tuesday. “I suspect over the next 12 months, if the g...
The General Services Administration has released the final requests for proposals for six contracts comprising the follow-on One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle program. GSA said Friday OASIS+ is composed of multiagency contracts for the acquisition of complex non-information technology services from the private sector: unrestri...
When Leidos Vice President and Tech Fellow John Mears was trying to log in to his Internal Revenue Service account, he failed, because their knowledge-based authentication system didn’t provide the proper options, mistaking him for another John Mears in a neighboring state. Aware President and CEO Robert Eckel had a similar exp...
Aircraft Readiness Alliance II has won a $408.2 million small business set-aside contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center Southwest maintain various aviation platforms and systems. The company will conduct modernization, conversion, disassembly and in-service repair efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contr...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) will provide health and disability assessment services to a U.K. government department responsible for work and pensions policy under a contract worth potentially $1 billion over five years. The Functional Assessment Services contract is scheduled to take effect in 2024 and will include the provision of more than 3.5 million eval...
Jeff Miller, former group chief financial officer and vice president of finance for government services at Day & Zimmermann, has started a new position as CFO of Ansible Government Solutions. He joins the service-disabled veteran-owned small business after a more-than-14-year career with engineering and construction firm D&Z. In a LinkedIn p...
Two companies will compete to deliver administrative and executive assistant services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under a five-year, $92.5 million contract. Bailey Information Technology Consultants and LMR Technical Group hold positions on the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the agency ...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business completed its migration to the cloud by closing its final data center at the end of 2022 and has pushed the adoption of a multicloud strategy by working with several vendors to meet the company’s back-office requirements, CIO reported Friday. “We’ve gone through our digital transfo...
Medical logistics company Metro Logics will provide managed services for government-owned medical supplies and medical equipment under a $199.2 million contract from the General Services Administration. The GSA’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center announced the award in a notice published Friday on SAM.gov. Services encompass se...
