American Systems has secured a follow-on contract valued at $172.7 million to continue supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division’s Demonstration and Assessment Team. The award includes a one-year base period and four one-year options, the company said Tuesday. This latest contract award demonstrates the Navy’s comm...
Leidos has been awarded a $142 million contract to support the modernization of IT operations of the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office, or CESO, within the Defense Information Systems Agency. Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Digital Transformation Summit on April 22 brings together senior officials driving government IT modernization, ...
Potomac Officers Club has secured two of the most influential public sector AI leaders in the market today as keynote speakers for its 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit, underscoring the event’s ambition to become what many are calling the “Davos of GovCon.” Joe Larson, vice president and head of government at OpenAI and a ne...
Iron Legion JV, a joint venture tied to General Dynamics Information Technology and service-disabled veteran-owned small business Legion Systems, has won a $265.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide intelligence support services for U.S. Special Operations Command. The cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable award i...
The Department of Homeland Security will recompete a $100 million contract vehicle to provide the U.S. Customs and Border Protection with integrated surveillance tower, or IST, supplies and services. What Are CBP’s Integrated Surveillance Tower Requirements? The agency will award a firm-fixed-price delivery order for 542 new ISTs and recapital...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International In 2026, government technological innovation has reached a key turning point. After years of modernization plans, pilot projects and progressive acceptance, government leaders are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence and quantum technologies directly into mission-critical ca...
SpaceX has acquired artificial intelligence company xAI as part of a push to combine the two companies under a single corporate structure to integrate AI development with space launch, satellite-based communications and related infrastructure. As SpaceX moves to integrate AI with space-based infrastructure, government and industry leaders continue t...
CGI Federal has secured a $26.9 million delivery order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide support for its Financial Management Business Transformation, or FMBT, program. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Evan Carey and Robert Cunningham will speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Healthcare Summit on Feb. 12. Regist...
Appearing on Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said congressional leaders are working to resolve the current partial government shutdown and that he expects the U.S. government to reopen by Tuesday. “We’ll get this done by Tuesday, I’m convinced,” Johnson told “Fox News Sunday”...
Hon. Emil Michael doesn’t like the term “valley of death.” Long used to describe the place where promising technology projects go to die between incubation and actually being implemented, it’s become an obstacle — almost a cliche — that the government contracting and tech communities have taken as a given. But at Potomac...
