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The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has announced the appointment of government and industry leaders Scott Simpson, Sandy Barsky and Terrell Russell to its technology acquisition program, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Simpson, digital transformation lead at the Department of Homeland Security, has assumed the role of gov...

Kary James was named vice president of equity and inclusion for the public sector at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), where she previously served as executive director of the consultancy-managed nationwide clearinghouse Child Information Gateway. James is now responsible for assisting federal civilian agency customers in identifying and addressing racial inequal...

The General Services Administration has reissued a request for proposals for the small business pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services after integrating changes to submission requirements for relevant experience concerning mentor-protege arrangements and joint ventures. The updated RF...

The commercial business industry was dealt a bad hand past few years—from COVID-19 shutdowns to global supply chain disruptions. Countless small businesses closed their doors for good, negatively impacting several industries. However, the government contracting industry stood its ground. Stability in the face of uncertainty and the opportunity to ...

GovCon Expert Joseph Letke, founder and CEO of TKS, published his first piece as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday detailing the issues surrounding the latest procurement challenges in the government contracting (GovCon) sector and how bidding teams should reflect on engineering their edge during the contract and ope...

Eight members of the independent slate led by Eileen Drake, CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), were elected to the company’s board to serve as directors during the special meeting of shareholders. The slate, including four existing board members, received over 70 percent of the votes cast based on preliminary results and Drake secured the...

The Biden Administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget request, released in March 2022, allocates $773 billion in funding to the Department of Defense. In a recent video interview with Executive Mosaic, GovCon Expert Jim McAleese, principal and owner of McAleese and Associates and a Wash100 Award winner, gave an in-depth analysis of what this budget ...

The U.S. government is procuring up to 405 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from a partnership between Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (Nasdaq: BNTX) under a $3.2 billion firm-fixed-price contract. The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it expects to receive the initial doses for both adult and pediatric use in the fall. “Vaccine...

Venkat Kodumudi, formerly a director at CGI (NYSE: GIB), has joined Unissant to serve as its chief technology officer and help scale its technology offerings in support of health and national security customers. The executive will be responsible for building on Unissant technologies to provide strategic and technical direction as well as securing ne...

Jordan Parsons, an industry veteran with over 16 years of experience supporting federal civilian agency customers, has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) to oversee programs with the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration as vice president for public health, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, she will lead efforts to deliv...