John Sherman, who currently serves as the intelligence community's chief information officer, has been appointed to succeed the retiring Essye Miller as principal deputy CIO of the Department of Defense....
Tetra Tech has received a $117M initial task order to help the Department of Defense track the progress of various security cooperation programs through data analytics. The company said Monday it will work with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and DoD Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy in program evaluation efforts....
Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said DoD expects to see contract delays of up to three months across Major Defense Acquisition Programs as contractors deal with challenges in the supply chain due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported M...
Ten companies have been awarded modifications worth $586M combined under a multiple-award U.S. Army contract supporting the coronavirus-related presidential national emergency declaration. The modification pushes the ceiling value of the original contract to $1.66B, the Department of Defense said Friday....
A federal judge decided to put on hold until Aug. 17 a lawsuit filed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Reuters reported Saturday....
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the Department of Defense’s acquisition and sustainment office and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said she believes the DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program “will become a federal standard for the whole of government rapidly,” FedScoop reported Thursday. Arrington...
An Akima subsidiary has won a potential $385M contract to provide logistics services for C-21 transport aircraft at multiple U.S. Air Force facilities across the globe. Akima Logistics Services will help the military branch maintain its airlifter platform, apply modifications, manage related programs and support deployments under the indefinit...
The Professional Services Council (PSC) has released its comments on the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Service Administration’s (GSA) actions to accelerate payments to government small business primes and small business subcontractors, the organization announced on Thursday. ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received an $84M contract modification to create technical publications about the VC-25B presidential aircraft, or Air Force One. The company and its subcontractors will provide integrated manuals for the aircraft system as part of the sole-source award, the Department of Defense said Wednesday....
The Department of Defense’s office of inspector general concluded that the awarding of the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was consistent with federal acquisition laws and policies, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday....
