Department of Defense leaders are facing a tsunami of data and wrestling with the question of how exactly to best use and harness it. As the data influx continues to swell, government and industry executives are working to identify areas for improvement within their organizations. “We’re in a world where the sensors far outnumber our...
With a total funding revenue of $7.5 billion and a team of 18,000, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating consumables like grocery products as well as class one medical devices and invasive tools. Essentially everything you see in a hospital is managed by the FDA and an approximate 78 percent of everyday...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a request for proposals for a 10-year recompete contract covering technical, professional and scientific services in the oceans domain. The ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract reserved for small businesses and has a base...
Software as a service company Exiger has acquired supply chain risk management platform vendor Ion Channel. Exiger said Tuesday that it will add the acquired company’s technology offering to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified SaaS platform that contains information on 16.8 million unique supply chains. Before the acq...
The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined several focus areas of a $5 billion government initiative to fund public-private collaborations working to speed up the development of next-generation vaccines and other therapeutics. Project NextGen aims to streamline the process from drug development to government approval to prepare and pro...
Through its purchase of iDoxSolutions Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology and management consulting company, B&A will provide federal, state and local government customers with more advanced IT offerings. iDox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the McLean, Virginia-headquartered IT services company. Founded in 2000, iDo...
Kathy Lueders, former associate administrator of NASA’s space operations mission directorate, has joined SpaceX as general manager with oversight of the Starship rocket program, CNBC reported Monday. She will directly report to Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a four-time Wash100 awardee, and work through th...
Defense and aerospace components maker Heico (NYSE: HEI) has agreed to acquire Wencor Group from the latter’s management and private equity firm Warburg Pincus in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.05 billion. Heico said Monday it will pay $1.9 billion in cash and $150 million in Class A common stock for the Peachtree City, Georgia-headquarter...
The General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...
