Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for information solutions at Deltek and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have ma...
GovernmentCIO has received a $37 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue to support and improve an online memorial for veterans. The Veterans Legacy Memorial is a public website that honors the sacrifice and service of more than 4.3 million veterans inurned and interred at VA national cemeteries and grant-funded state, t...
Having millions and even billions of dollars recurring spending, the United States government and its federal agencies are known to be the world’s largest buyer of products and services. The federal government buys almost everything they need from big and small businesses. To quickly obtain their needs, the federal government made government c...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Climate Resilience: Reducing Risk and Creating Opportunities Fireside Chat on Thursday, which gathered together leading climate experts in a timely discussion on how industry is partnering with city, state and federal governments and communities to implement robust climate resilience and adaptation plans as extreme wea...
Dan Lohrmann, former chief security officer for the state of Michigan, has been appointed field chief information security officer for the public sector business at digital services provider Presidio. In his new capacity, Lohrmann will work with clients in the state and local government and education sectors to help them develop infrastructure cyber...
Extreme weather events continue to increase in frequency and severity on a global scale, and climate change is gaining greater importance across federal government agencies’ priorities and concerns. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. has experienced at least...
Public policy think tank RAND Corp. has secured a nine-year, $184.2 million contract to perform research and analysis work for the U.S. Army. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract via the internet and will determine funds and work locations upon issuance of individual orders, the Department of Defense sai...
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 ...
Fors Marsh Group will continue helping the Department of Health and Human Services promote COVID-19 vaccine awareness under a $150 million contract that expands an earlier $250 million award from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the same effort. FMG and its subcontractors will support HHS’ COVID-19 Public Education ...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
