Cognosante has received a potential five-year, $70 million contract from the Social Security Administration to help SSA manage the Ticket to Work program. Falls Church, Virginia-based Cognosante said Thursday it will provide contact center operations, quality assurance, community outreach and training, claims processing, employment network recruitin...
Envistacom has secured positions on two of the 10 pools of the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO contract vehicle for manned, robotics, optionally manned and unmanned platforms. The company said Wednesday it secured positions on development/systems integration and research pools of the ASTRO indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity co...
Andy Read, former executive officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been named global head of government solutions at synthetic aperture radar satellite operator ICEYE. He brings to the role over 10 years of experience in natural catastrophe resilience, public policy and reinsurance as he oversees the company’s efforts to deliver a...
Comcast Government Services has acquired federal telecommunications provider Defined Technologies from Tysons, Virginia-based managed services company MicroTech for an undisclosed sum. Defined Technologies acts as a prime contractor on the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement v...
Dynamic Integrated Services has named former General Services Administration executives Dominic Sale and Stacy Riggs as a vice president and senior manager, respectively, within the enterprise optimization practice. Mark Forman, executive vice president for enterprise optimization practice at DIS, said in a statement published Wednesday Sale and Rig...
The General Services Administration has released updated Sections L and M covering proposal submission instructions and evaluation criteria of a draft request for proposals for the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for small information technology businesses. GSA said Friday the changes made to Sections L and M of the draft Polaris RFP wer...
Kevin Brown, a U.S. Navy veteran and a cybersecurity professional, has been appointed chief information security officer at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC). He will report to SAIC Chief Information Officer Nathan Rogers and will manage the company’s cybersecurity strategy with oversight of threat intelligence, incident respon...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded four service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $200 million contract to provide professional and technical support services to biomedical engineering departments at VA’s medical centers, Veterans Integrated Service Network offices and outpatient clinics. The a...
Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in GovCon Wire’s virtual event Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern time to discuss cybersecurity issues in the national security mission. Puesh Kumar, acting principal deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergen...
Brian Cummings, a retired U.S. Army major general, has been named vice president of combat vehicles, soldier systems and armaments at Alexandria, Virginia-based defense consultancy Cypress International. The 35-year military veteran brings leadership experience in Army acquisition programs for ground combat systems, soldier equipment and combat serv...
