A multifaceted technologist, Capgemini Government Solutions Chair, CEO and President Bill Webner has built a three-decade career assisting public sector organizations in completing their missions using innovative new tools and strategies. Webner is an alum of Booz Allen Hamilton and Freddie Mac who came to CGS, an independent subsidiary of global ma...
Dre’ Abadie, public-sector senior solutions architect at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies that seek to strengthen the cybersecurity of their hybrid cloud or multicloud environments should partner with companies that provide cross-cloud visibility and analytical insights and advance automation of security tasks. Abadie wrote in an a...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $996.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and manufacture a next-generation reentry vehicle for the service branch’s intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system. The contract covers engineering, manufacturing and design services for the MK21A Reentry Vehicle for the Sentinel progra...
Vertex Aerospace has secured a five-year, $458.2 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to establish a new depot site for the F-5 Adversary aircraft, serving both the military branch and the Marine Corps. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also calls for organizational, selected intermediate and limited depot lev...
The Department of Defense will advance the development of a B61 nuclear gravity bomb variant to meet the needs of an evolving security environment as discussed in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration would develop and produce the proposed B61-13 bomb as part of efforts to strength...
The General Services Administration has issued a draft request for quote outlining its plan to establish under GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules contract a potential 10-year, $919.7 million blanket purchase agreement for the acquisition of supply chain risk illumination tools and analytic support services. The proposed Supply Chain Risk Illumination ...
2023 marks the 20th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the U.S. federal government’s tradition of promoting careful cyber hygiene and ensuring protective precautions for digital assets. Established by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a nonprofit, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, ev...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $364.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and deliver six MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to the Norwegian government. The Sikorsky-built aircraft will help Norway conduct search and rescue missions, perform coastal and offshore patrolling and support other maritime activities, Lockheed said Thurs...
The U.S. Air Force plans to increase the ceiling value of a potential $6.4 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract used to acquire natural disaster recovery, contingency and humanitarian support services to $15 billion. Increasing the ceiling amount of the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V IDIQ contract will ...
Tessa Baerlocher, most recently deputy general manager of the space superiority business group at LinQuest, has assumed the role of vice president and business lead of the space systems technology developer’s TMC Design subsidiary. In this capacity, she will oversee growth initiatives within TMC and advance modernization in the areas of digita...
