GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday to bring together a handful of the most significant members of the federal landscape as well as those who want to learn more about the current set of challenges surrounding our cybersecurity systems, data modernization goals and IT transformation strategies. As the ...
Bryan Walter, former go-to-market lead for the cloud business at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm, has been appointed vice president and general manager of the federal solutions unit at construction information technology provider Gordian. He will lead Gordian’s efforts to help federal customers manage facilities and infrastructure as...
The State Department has named Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as principal contractor on a potential $350 million foreign military sale of defense services to Australia, in preparation for future orders of company-built Standard Missile systems and associated equipment. Raytheon would develop, engineer, integrate and test SM-6 Block I and SM-2 Bl...
Teledyne FLIR has appointed JihFen Lei, former principal deputy and acting director of research and engineering at the Defense Department, as vice president and general manager of the company’s surveillance business, Politico reported Monday. Her appointment comes about two months after Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) acquired FLIR Systems. ...
Elinor Damo, formerly a director at Peraton, has joined the federal business of CGI (NYSE GIB) as vice president for consulting services. Damo announced her new role in a LinkedIn post and said that she will focus on CGI Federal’s Department of Homeland Security customers. She joined Peraton after its private-equity owner, Veritas Capital, acq...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 6th Annual Army Forum on Thursday to bring together some of the most notable federal and industry leaders to discuss how the Army will drive future capabilities to meet the demand and speed of the digital battlefield. Christopher Lowman, senior official performing the duties of the U.S. Army undersecretary,...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer for Technomile, published his first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. In his first article of a two-part feature, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an informative guide into the contract lifecycle management of contract professionals in the federal landscape today while also...
Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
Mara Elizabeth Karlin, principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs at the Defense Department, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as DOD’s assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilties. Senators approved the nomination by voice vote Monday, following a series of congressional events that took place since ...
Crowley‘s government services business will continue to help U.S. Transportation Command coordinate surface freight activity for two Defense Department agencies under a one-year, $453 million contract modification. The company will perform work for the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Contract Management Agency through July 31, 2022, as pa...
