The Missile Defense Agency has issued a second tranche of awards under its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract, adding 1,086 companies to the competitive pool supporting the $151 billion SHIELD multiple-award vehicle, one of several contracting mechanisms supporting the administration’s Golden Dome missile defense ...
President Trump’s most recent executive order on AI lays the groundwork for further development and implementation of the technology for military and national security applications. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that protects AI development from patchwork and expensive compliance requirements resulting from various state laws. The ...
GovCons can’t get enough of Golden Dome, President Trump’s proposed homeland missile defense system. That’s for good reason. Not only has an independent estimate pegged Golden Dome as costing at least $252 billion over a 20 year period, but the Trump Administration has already appropriated $25 billion to start the program. As such...
Federal contracting offers businesses a unique path to stability, growth and purpose by partnering with one of the world’s largest and most reliable clients—the U.S. government. Each year, billions of dollars in federal contracts are awarded to companies of all sizes, fueling innovation, strengthening national infrastructure and supporting key i...
BAE Systems has named three senior executives to vice president roles focused on growth, federal civilian missions and the company’s F-35 portfolio. The executives announced the appointments separately in their recent LinkedIn posts. Joanna Davenport: Vice President of Growth, Intelligence Solutions BAE Systems has appointed Joanna Davenport a...
General Dynamics Information Technology landed a $98 million contract modification from the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue providing acquisition, integration, installation, operations and maintenance services for communications systems supporting the U.S. Air Forces Central Command, or USAFCENT, deployed missions. Communications...
AI technologies such as generative AI could help small GovCons improve efficiency in light of weak growth forecasts, according to a Deltek executive. The Deltek Clarity 2025: Government Contracting Industry Study found that small GovCons are negative on future growth in the U.S. and could take drastic measures such as consolidation or divestiture i...
BWX Technologies has appointed Nate Foote, who has been with BWXT for more than a decade, as vice president of contracts and procurement in government operations. Foote announced his new position at the manufacturing and engineering services contractor in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Nate Foote’s Career Background According to his Linked...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected three companies for a potential $250 million contract to provide shoreline mapping services for the National Geodetic Survey, or NGS, within NOAA’s National Ocean Service. According to notices published Thursday on SAM.gov, Dewberry Engineers, NV5 Geospatial and Woolpert are the ...
By Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Lead, IBM Shadow software-as-a-service refers to unauthorized cloud applications used within an organization. Shadow SaaS is a challenge in modern IT governance. IT teams lack oversight and monitoring of unapproved applications making it difficult to effectively govern shadow SaaS. A recent NextDLP survey o...
