Once Frank Whitworth began his duties as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he asked his team what their desired goal was for the end state, or ultimate mission completion, of the organization. They replied with a resounding, ambitious answer: “GEOINT [or geointelligence] supremacy.” At first, Whitworth was a b...
Software, cloud and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are rapidly expanding in the public sector. As federal agencies migrate to the cloud, they’re looking to industry for all-encompassing products, services and systems that can help smooth the transition and accelerate their modernization journeys. Tamara Greenspan, group v...
Boecore, a portfolio company of private investment firm Enlightenment Capital, has purchased space systems provider Ascension Engineering Group for an undisclosed sum. AEG is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business founded in 2017 and provides satellite communications engineering platforms for NASA, the U.S. Army, U.S. Space Force, other def...
Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for public sector at Veritas Technologies, said government agencies should prioritize data protection by developing a detailed strategy that could enable them to quickly respond to data breaches and restore data and applications that are key to delivering services to citizens. Malaret urged agencies to imp...
Client Solution Architects has received certification under a Virginia Department of Veterans Services program that works to help companies hire and train service members transitioning into civilian careers. As a certified Virginia Values Veterans employer, CSA has the opportunity to connect with former military personnel and their spouses through r...
The General Services Administration has released requests for proposals for Historically Underutilized Business Zone and service-disabled veteran-owned small business pools of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. GSA said Friday it will accept proposals through Nov. 4 for SDVOSB and HUBZon...
Huntsville, Alabama-based small business Five Stones Research Corp. has won a five-year, $266.4 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks to weapon systems. 5SRC will additionally support the Department of Defense in efforts to integrate cybersecurity data into the system architecture, secure cloud...
Bechtel Corporation is an American procurement, project, and construction management firm founded in San Francisco, California, in 1898. The Bechtel group headquarters are in Reston, Virginia, after it relocated to the Washington D.C. area in 2018. It is the largest construction company in the U.S. and offers primary services, including finance, tun...
The current global security threat landscape is constantly changing, and government contractors are having to flex and adapt to meet the evolving needs of their customers. According to Terry Ryan, CEO of Constellis, we’re seeing three major categories of security threats in the U.S. and globally: natural, human-caused and accidental. Natural Thr...
The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to launch a competition for the third iteration of the Program Management, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Services contract vehicle. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within DHS expects PACTS III to be a total set-aside program for service-disabled veteran-owned small busine...
