ST Engineering’s shipbuilding business in Pascagoula, Mississippi, has received a $552.7 million contract modification from the Department of the Navy to design and build a second polar security cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Navy exercised an option on a potential $1.94 billion contract originally awarded to VT Halter Marine in April 20...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects to launch a solicitation by the end of January for a potential $100 million contract to procure cloud infrastructure hosting services, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Acquisition Planning Forecast System. ICE is interested in acquiring Federal Risk and Aut...
Chad Sweet, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security and co-founder of advisory firm The Chertoff Group, has been appointed to the board of directors of Bethesda, Maryland-based digital services provider DMI. DMI said Monday Sweet also serves as CEO of Chertoff, a member of DHS’ Homeland Security Advisory Council and an...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection plans to issue a draft request for proposals and a formal solicitation for a cloud procurement effort in 2022. CBP is finalizing the requirements for the Enterprise Cloud and Integrated Services acquisition program meant to facilitate the migration of its information technology pl...
Lew Messing, vice president of programs at Science Applications International Corp., will lead a panel discussion at a Nov. 17 virtual event about information technology modernization efforts within the defense and intelligence sectors. In his current capacity, Messing supports U.S. intelligence community customers such as the Office of the Director...
The Department of Homeland Security has received 637 proposals from 325 vendors for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III information technology contract and that Phase I evaluation of the proposals is nearly complete, according to an updated notice to industry. DHS informed vendors that it expects to issue advisory downselect notificat...
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a request for proposal for engineering development, integration and support services required by its Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center. A SAM.gov solicitation notice posted Tuesday said the Department of Homeland Security component will select 8(a) companies to help ...
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...
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...
Peraton has won a potential $2.69 billion single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Department of Homeland Security manage a hybrid computing environment consisting of a data center, colocation facilities and cloud services. DHS offered details of the Data Center and Cloud Optimization contract in the Federal Procurem...
