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Rachael Martin is among the women who have been included in the prestigious Wash100 2024 award. A seasoned visionary with decades of experience in the geospatial and artificial intelligence fields, Ms. Martin has proven to be a paramount figure in forging a path to the future for the government and private sector.   Get to...

The U.S. Navy awarded HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding business a contract modification worth up to $1.17 billion to complete engineering overhaul of the Los Angeles-class attack boat USS Boise, the Department of Defense said Friday. The action comes more than six years after the service branch initially announced the contract, whic...

Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the rise in SDA’s budget seeks to show that the agency is a real market for space industry leaders and investors, SpaceNews reported Saturday. SDA is building a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit and its requested budget for...

Garrettson Blight, a 13-year Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) veteran, has been named vice president for global government at the McLean, Virginia-based information technology consulting company. He announced his new post Friday on LinkedIn and will be responsible for Booz Allen’s national security support and growth activities across four cont...

Cummins Power Generation has won a potential $509.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce and supply Advanced Medium Mobile Power Sources systems to help the service branch and other Department of Defense components meet their tactical power generation requirements. The Army announced the award of the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/i...

Marine Hydraulics International has secured a potential $147.2 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain, repair and modernize a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. The contractor will help execute the fiscal 2024 selected restricted availability activities on the USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), the Department of Defense said Thursday. ...

Bill Webner, chair, president and CEO of Capgemini Government Solutions, debuted on this year’s Wash100 Award, Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of 100 elite leaders in the government and government contracting space. He is being recognized for driving technological innovation in support of government customers’ missions. Vote ...

The advancement of generative artificial intelligence in the last year or two has dramatically altered the possibilities, threats and opportunities posed by AI technologies. ECS President John Heneghan took us into the world of AI, gen AI and data in the public sector in his latest Executive Spotlight interview. Heneghan, a three-time Wash100 Awar...

Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal business will provide the U.S. Navy with SHARKCAGE systems customized with commercial and commercial off-the-shelf analytics hardware and software under a potential 10-year, $789.5 million contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that Accenture Federal Services will also perform design, architecture, t...

The U.S. Army has awarded five companies positions on a potential five-year, $99 million contract to provide analytical services to support the assessment of surface, air, electromagnetic spectrum, directed energy, cyber, space and other non-nuclear munitions. Army Contracting Command received six offers for the multiple-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee c...