The General Services Administration has selected 557 small businesses as second phase awardees on the potential $50 billion 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract for information technology services. GSA said Thursday the award of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC’s second cohort to underserved and disadvan...
Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, has been selected to the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most significant contributors in the government contracting sector — for the sixth consecutive year. “As our business continues to grow, I am grateful for the exceptional team we’ve built. Guidehouse is home to great talent,...
Government contracting is an industry where businesses and contractors are left wondering where to start due to its opaque procedures and overwhelming amount of information. That said, we’ve provided frequently asked questions and basic knowledge you need to know about the government contracting, or GovCon, industry. 1. What Are Examples of Go...
The General Services Administration announced that it expects to release requests for proposals for small business and women-owned small business pools of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services in February. The Polaris GWAC small business and WOSB pools will be multiple-award, indefinite-deli...
The Office of Management and Budget released a new federal zero trust strategy that requires government agencies to meet robust cybersecurity standards and aims to reinforce federal defense capabilities against a rising number of threats on critical government infrastructure and operations. OMB’s strategy, released via memorandum on Jan. 26, build...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $1.42 billion sole-source contract to provide logistics and mission sustainment services to the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of military transport planes. The AF Life Cycle Management Center is obligating $91 million in fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds at the time of the award and expects the company...
Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of fed...
The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in the industry. With this consistent rise of the trajectory and the government’s planned reforms to level the playing field for small bus...
SpaceX has won a potential five-year, $102 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate technologies under a program that seeks to determine the viability of using large rockets to support the Department of Defense’s global logistics missions, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Under the Rocket Cargo program, the Air Force Research Laborator...
Gary Johnston, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined the board of advisors of Pinehurst, North Carolina-based professional services company Leyden Solutions, GovCon Wire has learned. He will provide organizational change management and mentorship support to Leyden’s executive team as the company pursues growth in delivering support service...
