Amentum has agreed to acquire PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion as part of efforts to establish a technology services provider serving U.S. federal agencies and allied governments. PAE’s board of directors approved the transaction that is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of...
U.S. Army officials are working to synchronize the modernization of its enterprise and tactical networks for the first phase of an initiative to create an Army force that is ready for multidomain operations from 2028 onwards. The Army’s Unified Network Plan, released Oct. 8, outlines five lines of effort to align service personnel, capabilitie...
Timothy “Tim” McBride, formerly a senior vice president at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), will assume the role of president of Singapore-based ST Engineering’s U.S. arm on Nov. 1. He will oversee the operations of ST Engineering North America through the company’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, the company said Monday. “Tim brin...
GovCon Wire Events hosted Thursday its AI: Innovation in Homeland Security Forum, which brought together government and industry leaders to examine how national security agencies can leverage AI technology to combat foreign and domestic adversaries and threats. Following a keynote address from DHS official John Cohen, GovCon Wire Events proceeded ...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its highly-anticipated Optimizing the Hybrid Workforce Forum on Thursday to bring together the significant members from across the federal government and industry to discuss how to ensure a strong workforce culture, uncover risks that may undermine mission effectiveness and leverage data to inform change management...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer for Technomile, published his latest feature article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Previously, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an informative guide in a two-part feature breaking down contract lifecycle management (CLM) in the federal landscape today. For his latest piece, Fo...
Frank Finelli, a managing director at The Carlyle Group and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the public sector advisory board of Santa Clara, California-based enterprise data protection company Veritas Technologies. He and three other newly appointed advisory board members will advise the company on the new cybersecurity executive orde...
In August, the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate recently published a strategy to maximize technological opportunities from artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Through this strategy, S&T will build and apply expertise to help the department fulfill the game-changing promise of AI/ML techn...
The Department of Homeland Security’s chief human capital officer will keynote an Oct. 7 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to give her perspective on the potential implications of a hybrid workforce model for government agencies. Angela Bailey was appointed to the DHS CHCO position in January 2016 after her two-year tenure as...
