President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing ...
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...
Sridhar Rajagopalan, vice president for client services at Alpha Omega Integration, has been promoted to the role of senior vice president for core accounts, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. The SVP will now be responsible for the information technology services provider’s portfolio of contracts with the departments of State and Commerce as ...
Voyager Space has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Space Micro, a San Diego-based maker of satellite communications, electro-optical and digital systems, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its technology portfolio in support of defense, civil and commercial customers. “The satellite constellation market stand...
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...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has awarded five companies spots on a potential $8 billion contract to support military construction projects under the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. NAVFAC Pacific received six proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and is ...
The Potomac Officers Club hosted the third installment of its Data-Driven 2021 Series, The Cost of AI, on Tuesday, which brought together public and private sector leaders to discuss how federal government agencies must plan for budget changes, potential technology disruptions and strategy shifts as they work to integrate innovative artificial inte...
Tom McCaffery, former assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, has joined research and consulting firm Health Management Associates as a principal. He will work from HMA’s office in Washington, D.C. and brings military health care program experience to his new position, the company said Wednesday. McCaffery noted th...
