London-based education publishing and assessment services company Pearson has agreed to acquire Personnel Decisions Research Institutes from SHL Group for approximately $190 million in a strategy to pursue business opportunities in the U.S. federal talent management segment. Pearson said Monday it expects the transaction to close in the first half o...
Darby LaJoye, former acting administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, has been named vice president and strategic account executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS). He will lead efforts to grow the company’s DHS footprint and support organic growth initiatives in his new position, Leidos said F...
Aeyon will provide NASA with financial management consulting services in support of financial operation consolidation efforts at seven of its ten centers during a contracting period of up to eight years. Work is under a potential $516.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract NASA awarded to MM Technologies, a joint venture between ...
The General Services Administration has begun seeking proposals from companies with commercial online platforms that could provide business-to-business e-commerce support for federal buyers of commercial off-the-shelf items using government purchase cards. GSA plans to award multiple contracts to vendors that own, manage and operate commercial onlin...
The Department of Commerce has cleared a joint NASA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program to acquire spacecraft that will follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series. The agencies can now start the contracting process to build a Geostationary Extended Observations system and associated instruments, NOAA...
An Amentum subsidiary has won a five-year, $44.6 million task order to support the U.S. Agency for International Development’s human assistance bureau in implementing regional disaster management and risk reduction programs. The order, awarded under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contra...
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed data and storage service, has achieved FedRAMP and Department of Defense certification and is approved for public sector use. The service, offered by a NetApp-Amazon Web Services partnership, now has FedRAMP Moderate and High authorizations in select regions and meets impact levels two, four and five of...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved fusion ignition, a milestone that could provide insights into the development of clean fusion energy and lead to advancements in national defense. A controlled fusion experiment performed at the National Ignition Facility on Dec. 5 applied ...
Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Intel‘s federal arm a contract to research and develop novel advanced memory technologies to help the U.S. maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile. Intel Federal will work with Sandia as well as the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories on the development of memory systems capable of ac...
Bajinder Paul, a 25-year federal service veteran, has been appointed president and chief innovation officer at Baltimore, Maryland-based information technology services company Arch Systems. He brings to the position over two decades of experience in operational and strategic leadership and information technology encompassing software development, p...
