GovCon Wire Events hosted its Climate Resilience: Reducing Risk and Creating Opportunities Fireside Chat on Thursday, which gathered together leading climate experts in a timely discussion on how industry is partnering with city, state and federal governments and communities to implement robust climate resilience and adaptation plans as extreme wea...
Extreme weather events continue to increase in frequency and severity on a global scale, and climate change is gaining greater importance across federal government agencies’ priorities and concerns. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. has experienced at least...
Lisa Starkweather, formerly the director of programs at Cyber Defense Technologies, has joined Virginia-based security consulting firm Avint as chief operating officer. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Avint’s business that aims to help federal customers secure cyber and physical systems, the company said Wednesday. Sta...
AshBritt, ECC Constructors and DRC Emergency Services have been awarded five-year contracts to support the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ debris management mission. USACE received nine bids for the firm-fixed-price contracts via the internet and the agency expects work to conclude on Nov. 9, 2026, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. AshBr...
The Department of Homeland Security has received 637 proposals from 325 vendors for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III information technology contract and that Phase I evaluation of the proposals is nearly complete, according to an updated notice to industry. DHS informed vendors that it expects to issue advisory downselect notificat...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) recorded $3.5 billion in revenue during the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 and $403 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, up 16 percent from the same period last year. The Reston, Virginia-based technology services contractor said Tuesday the 7 percent revenue growth from the prior...
Data Systems Analysts has created a joint venture with Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider HarmonyTech through a mentor-protege partnership certified by the Small Business Administration. The two companies will work together under the name DataHarmony with the goal of supporting government and enterprise customers in var...
As the rapid development of emerging technologies continues to have transformative impacts on today’s battlespace, U.S. defense agencies have recently shifted their priorities to reflect an exponentially increasing demand for modernization, optimization and cybersecurity. The Department of Defense created a new acquisition framework in January...
Individuals or firms who enter into a contract with any government department or agency to perform a specified task, provide labor and materials, or sell goods and services, are known as federal contractors. A federal subcontractor is a business that works with another business that has direct government contracts. Both contractors and subcontractor...
