Tres Vance, North America Cloud GTM lead at Red Hat, said government agencies looking to streamline their migration to the cloud and meet their technology modernization goals should consider establishing a cloud center of excellence that adheres to best practices for observability and governance as well as adopt open source platforms. “When we mov...
Exiger, a software-as-a-service supply chain risk management company, has purchased Supply Dynamics for an undisclosed sum to combine their products to develop an end-to-end supply chain visibility and risk management capability through a single cloud-based enterprise platform. Exiger said Tuesday it will integrate SDX, PAC and ExplorerRX products o...
Morgan Keese, formerly director of communications at Airbus U.S. Space and & Defense, has been appointed chief of staff at the Arlington, Virginia-based contractor, she announced Monday in a LinkedIn post. She has been with the company since August 2019 and previously served as director of government relations. Keese spent three years within the...
The Transportation Security Administration is seeking proposals for a potential $128 million multiple-award contract to develop, install and maintain the new version of the agency’s facial recognition system used to authenticate passenger credentials. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will have an ordering period of seven years ...
In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
The Internal Revenue Service has released a draft request for quotations for a potential $209 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement covering user network and services support. A presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov Thursday indicates the UNSS II contract will encompass deskside information technology maintenance, workstation software...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a potential $1.15 billion order from the U.S. Army to build modernized Abrams main battle tanks for Poland. The foreign military sales order is for the delivery of 250 M1A2 System Enhancement Program version 3 vehicles that include upgrades to armor, communications, fire control ...
Alan Chvotkin, a partner at government contracts law firm Nichols Liu, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In his latest featured article, GovCon Expert Alan Chvotkin explores the pending legislation regarding the issue of acquisition conflicts of interest. In addition, he also discuss...
Tom Kellermann, former head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has been appointed senior vice president of cyber strategy at Los Altos, California-based vulnerability assessment software provider Contrast Security. He will oversee Contrast Security’s strategy to support cyber initiatives in the government and financial sector and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started buying weather data from satellite companies Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and GeoOptics and kicked off testing data from a third company in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. GeoOptics and Spire were two of the three companies that secured contracts from NOAA in July to supply s...
