The Swift Group, a Reston, Virginia-based IT services provider, has acquired OPS Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Holton Yost, president and CEO of Swift, said in a statement released Thursday the acquisition will help the company to execute its long-term g...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $282.6 million contract to modernize the Rolling Airframe Missile, a ship self-defense capability, for the U.S. Navy and three foreign military customers. The award from Naval Sea Systems Command covers design agent and engineering support to the MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program, the Depa...
By Alan Chvotkin, Partner at Centre Law & Consulting In March 2016, pursuant to an initial Obama Executive Order, the National Archives published its long-awaited final regulations covering how agencies must deal with controlled unclassified information, or CUI. CUI is information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to,...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) will provide the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with vulnerability assessment and other support services under a potential five-year, $170 million task order. The company said Wednesday it was also tasked with assisting the operational programs of DTRA’s Nuclear Enterprise Directorate in addition to performing analyses, design...
Mission1st Group has acquired Ardent Management Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand information technology service offerings for the Department of Defense and federal civilian agency customers. Ardent, an Amazon Web Services consulting partner, specializes in data analytics and location intelligence support to public sector clients, Mission1...
In recent years, space has become a warfighting domain as global tensions rise, new threats emerge and the peer competition heats up. Now, more than ever, the ability to collect, process, and understand intelligence from space is critical to gaining and maintaining technological dominance on the global stage. Under its eighth director, Vice AdmiralÂ...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will continue to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency migrate enterprise information technology workloads to a multicloud environment under a five-year, $84 million contract. HII said Tuesday subcontractors on the recompeted work are AgileBeat, Ampsight, Compass and GIT-G. The teammem...
Four U.S. lawmakers have urged the Department of Defense to strengthen its review process for mergers and acquisitions and be more transparent with the public about the findings of its reviews of such transactions while ensuring the need to safeguard national security and confidential business information. In a letter addressed to Defense Secretary ...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
Christina Payne, most recently senior vice president of human resources and corporate relations at Precise Systems, has assumed the role of chief people officer at the company. She will continue to oversee people strategy, employee development and culture initiatives in support of the company’s growth efforts, Precise Systems said Monday. Payne is...
