KPMG’s federal advisory practice has named 25-year FBI veteran Maria Voreh as a director and appointed Pamela Powers, Michael Westphal and Chad Poppell to managing director positions. All four public service veterans will aim to help KPMG’s government clients transform business processes, the professional services firm said. Voreh led th...
Bill Rowan of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Brian Whitenight of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said the partnership between VMware and GDIT is making it easier for Department of Defense agencies to move to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s milCloud 2.0 platforms in three ways. The partnership helps simplify the...
Four U.S. military branches have placed orders worth more than $70 million for FLIR Systems‘ (Nasdaq: FLIR) Centaur ground robots and associated equipment. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps ordered around 600 units of the medium-sized Centaur unmanned ground vehicle intended for explosive ordnance disposal missions, FLIR said Monday.&...
Guidehouse and ReefPoint Group have created a joint venture that aims to help federal civilian, defense and commercial clients transform health care delivery with the use of information technology. Taurian Consulting emerged from a partnership between the two companies under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program and will o...
The White House has issued an executive order that will direct government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour. The new policy will require all federal agencies to include the raise in new contract solicitations by Jan. 30, 2022 and implement the higher wage into new...
Maximus’ (NYSE: MMS) move to purchase Veterans Evaluation Services, a Houston-based facilitator of medical disability compensation and pension exams, for $1.4 billion aims to add business process outsourcing services at the federal level as a complement to state-level independent clinical assessment work, Maximus President and CEO Bruce Caswel...
The Department of Homeland Security has released a solicitation for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III contract for information technology hardware, software, value-added reseller and IT managed services. FirstSource III is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and a total small business set-aside program...
Sixteen nonprofit organizations employing people with disabilities have won positions on a $150 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency distribute goods and services to the U.S. military. DLA received 17 responses for the AbilityOne Base Supply Center Tailored Logistics Support Program via a comp...
Gerry Fasano, president of Leidos’ Defense Group, received his 2021 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Leidos for his leadership and efforts to drive massive defense contracts with federal customers and spearheading valuable acquisitions, which has expanded Leidos revenue and influence in the market...
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL), a Plano, Texas-based public sector software provider, has purchased DataSpec for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its software offerings for managing veterans’ benefits. “DataSpec is a good fit with Tyler’s acquisition philosophy, which includes adding best-of-breed companies and products that com...
