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 ...
Himamauli Das, a senior managing director and co-head of CFIUS advisory services at K2 Integrity, has been named acting director of the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity and previous Wash100 awardee, said in a statement Tuesday...
Laurie “LC” Cook, a more than two-decade industry veteran, has joined artificial intelligence search company Yext (NYSE: YEXT) as vice president of public sector. She will oversee Yext’s sales arm responsible for serving U.S. federal, state and local government agencies in the newly created role, the company said in an Aug. 2 news release. Coo...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has secured a potential $338.1 million contract to manufacture additional subscale aerial targets for use in the U.S. Air Force’s weapons-release training exercises. The sole-source contract is for lots 17 to 21 AFSAT production, logistics and out-of-warranty repair services, the Departmen...
Express Scripts has secured a potential multi-year $4.3 billion contract to help the Defense Health Agency manage pharmacy benefit-related activities across all 50 states; Washington, D.C; Guam; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands. The company will provide management services in support of the TRICARE Pharmacy Benefit Program, which delivers prescri...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has launched a new initiative to drive the development and execution of cyber defense operations plans in partnership with the private sector, federal interagency and state, local, tribal, territorial government stakeholders. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative is aimed at reducing cyber inciden...
Biniam Gebre, senior managing director at Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and head of management consulting for its federal business arm, will be nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget. The White House said Wednesday Gebre has more than two decades...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
