The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking information on small businesses that could help meet the information technology services requirements of the Department of Defense’s office of inspector general. DISA is looking for a defense partner that will work with DOD’s OIG personnel to oversee its portfolio of IT systems and provide tactic...
Khalid Syed, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, will lead an Oct. 27 panel discussion about partnerships between the Department of Defense and the domestic industry to create a robust and resilient network for tactical users. Syed oversees Booz Allen’s command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, rec...
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) on Nov. 8 to serve as vice president of business development with oversight of the company’s defense, space and government services sales organization. She will directly report to Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and securi...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) holds a prime position on all 10 pools of a General Services Administration contract vehicle for manned and unmanned technologies. GSA categorized the 10-year, ASTRO acquisition program into data operations; mission operations; aviation; space; maritime; ground; systems integration and development; research and develo...
The U.S. Navy has awarded AAR (NYSE: AIR), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and StandardAero separate contract modifications worth $318.1 million combined to maintain Poseidon maritime patrol planes and engines. All three awards include depot-level support services for Australia and other foreign military sales customers, the Department of Defense said Thursday. A...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is working to help customers meet their mission requirements and priorities by making investments to deliver cloud capabilities to the edge in support of mission operators. Wagner wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that...
Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DevSecOps initiative. MFGS’ Fortify leverages zero trust, automated testing and code scanning capabilities t...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has acquired Advanced Solutions Inc., a Colorado-based space software company, as part of efforts to further build up its space systems business. Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday it paid $40 million for ASI and will potentially make an additional payment of $5.5 million performance earnout based on r...
Members of Congress want the intelligence community to invest more in commercial technology platforms and share data with the Defense Department as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act. On Sept. 30, the House Intelligence Committee passed its version of the bill that authorizes IC spending levels 0.5 percent above the White Ho...
