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...
On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Bolstering Climate Resilience for National Security Forum featuring Dr. Erwin Villiger of LMI, Dr. Kathleen White from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dr. Terence Thompson of the Climate Service as panelists during a full discussion exploring the implications of climate c...
The research arm of the U.S. Air Force has released a presolicitation notice for a program aimed at enabling autonomous electromagnetic warfare operations through artificial intelligence or machine learning-powered collection and analysis of on-board data in real time. According to the notice of contract action posted Thursday on SAM.gov, Project Ka...
Ryan Elliott, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of management consulting and business leadership experience, has joined Veterans Management Services Inc. as chief strategy officer. He will oversee VMSI’s service expansion initiatives in market areas such as information technology and help manage its overall performance, growth and st...
KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicl...
J.R. Glass, a more than two-decade government IT market veteran, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as vice president for government health and safety solutions. Glass announced his new position Thursday in a LinkedIn post. Prior to this appointment, he was the chief growth officer at service-disabled veteran-owned professional services provider TISTA S...
