The concept of zero trust has been widely discussed yet enigmatic in recent years; now, as the Department of Defense moves forward with codifying zero trust and putting a strategy for implementation in place, the U.S. Navy is taking a closer look at its own transition to zero trust. Scott St. Pierre, deputy director for...
President Joe Biden approved a stopgap bill Friday to keep U.S. government operations funded at the existing level through Dec. 16 and head off a federal shutdown before the midnight deadline, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Senate voted 72-25 Thursday afternoon to pass the continuing resolution, followed by the House’s passage of the legisl...
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Seven companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $1 billion contract managed by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command to build, fix or renovate government-owned medical treatment facilities across seven U.S. states. Projects will include hospitals, dental and medical clinics, ambulatory care centers and research laboratories, th...
Don Chaney, vice president of federal sales at Forcepoint, published his first feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday to highlight the significant challenges that the federal government is facing as its different agencies all adapt to the latest cybersecurity standards and find innovative solutions for ...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has promoted Keith Runtz and Vanessa Godshalk to respectively oversee the company’s defense and safety and citizen services portfolios. Runtz succeeds Vince Vlasho, who most recently served as a senior managing director and defense portfolio lead at Accenture Federal Services. Vlasho, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, r...
Connected Alliances has received a five-year, $99 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force operationalize a strategy framework for sustaining weapon systems. The military branch expects the output from the project to drive policy improvements and requirements document production, as well as inform concept of operations and performance work statem...
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to purchase operational and training ammunition for M1A2K tanks, related equipment and services under a potential $250 million foreign military sales agreement. General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) will be the principal contractor in the proposed FMS transaction, which will enable Kuwait to support the mod...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary, accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the most significant award of consequence to the government contracting community, during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in Lorton, VA. “Shawn Purvis has distinguished herself through a leaders...
Today, evolutions and advancements in modern warfare are driving major shifts in the technologies, weapons systems and capabilities that defense contractors provide. Now, more than ever, robotics, autonomous solutions and cyber are dominating the defense landscape, and companies like QinetiQ are using these shifts to steer strategies, investments an...
