The Department of Labor has proposed regulations to implement an executive order that will require government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour starting Jan. 30, 2022. President Joe Biden signed in late April the executive order that will also extend the new minimum pay to...
The General Services Administration’s 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support has received the “best-in-class” status for meeting the Office of Management and Budget’s performance standard for category management. “The 8(a) STARS GWAC program r...
Jim Cushman, a technology industry veteran, has joined mobile enterprise security company Hypori as president of commercial markets and chief product officer. He will oversee the company’s strategic growth initiatives and expansion into health care, fintech and other commercial markets and is expected to use his three decades of product developmen...
ASGN (NYSE: AGN), the parent organization of ECS, has acquired IndraSoft for an undisclosed sum to expand its client base. Reston, Virginia-based IndraSoft has been delivering cyber analytics, DevSecOps, cloud, cybersecurity, digital transformation and other enterprise information technology support services to the U.S. Census Bureau, Defense Inform...
Horizon Strategies, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, has won a potential $231.2 million contract from the U.S. Army Field Directorate Office to help soldiers transition from active duty to civilian life. The Winston Salem, North Carolina-based company will provide military personnel assistance services that comply with the Army’...
A Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) business unit has won a potential $75.8 million Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 contract to help Department of Defense mission partners connect to DOD’s global military information network. Comcast’s government services group will replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits with new ethernet connections in t...
Stephen Ambrose, a 40-year veteran in science and technology, will oversee the climate initiatives of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as chief climate scientist, a newly created role. He will lead the projects of SAIC focused on data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning aimed at helping government clients addre...
Ocean Bay Information and Systems Management has secured a $167.2 million contract to provide administrative, technical and professional services to the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to an award notice posted on SAM. gov. The DEA’s Office of Acquisition and Relocation Management sought a contractor to support the agency mission un...
Forcepoint has agreed to buy U.K.-based Deep Secure for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings for governments, critical infrastructure and enterprises worldwide. Forcepoint said Tuesday it expects the transaction to be completed in August, pending regulatory review and other customary closing conditions. “The ad...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 29 companies potential 10-year contracts worth up to $242 million combined to provide expeditionary supplies and services in support of military exercises, disaster relief, humanitarian missions and contingencies worldwide. The fleet logistics center of Naval Supply Systems Command in Japan received 35 offers for the indefi...
