ExecutiveBiz featured Wyn Elder, managing director of global and U.S. public sector at Box, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about Box’s strategy to help address current challenges of its customers, including the federal government, as well as the company’s recent contracts from the General Se...
President Joe Biden on Friday signed another continuing resolution that would fund the federal government at current spending levels through Feb. 18. The CR includes supplemental appropriations for continued support of Afghanistan evacuees and extends expiring authorizations, the White House said Friday. Politico reported that Biden signed the CR af...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2021 — Verizon‘s (NYSE: VZ) public sector business will support the digital modernization efforts of the Department of Energy by providing voice and data services as part of the two recently awarded task orders under the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle, Executive...
Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin and Nanoracks have received contracts worth $415.6 million combined from NASA to design space-based facilities for low Earth orbit. The Space Act Agreements come as the agency is looking to retire the International Space Station and transition to newer commercially developed facilities that could be accessible to both p...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will continue to provide a data management and decision support platform to Space Systems Command under a $43 million contract extension. The company said Thursday its Warp Core technology supports situational awareness and decision-making efforts at U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Comm...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a solicitation for a 10-year recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services focused on the satellite domain. The ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract set aside for small businesses and has a base term...
Robert Lightfoot, vice president of operations at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business area, has been promoted to lead the segment as executive vice president. He will assume his new position on Jan. 1 and replace Rick Ambrose, who intends to retire in March after a more-than-20-year career at Lockheed and will support transition effor...
A partnership between Amentum and Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has won a potential $28 billion contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to manage and operate the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas. The 10-year contract to Nuclear Production One covers a five-year base period of performance and five one-y...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection plans to issue a draft request for proposals and a formal solicitation for a cloud procurement effort in 2022. CBP is finalizing the requirements for the Enterprise Cloud and Integrated Services acquisition program meant to facilitate the migration of its information technology pl...
Reston, Virginia-based Centuria has received a potential $48 million contract from NASA to provide information technology services for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and Ames Research Center. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded the IT Support Services III contract as a labor-hour order through the General Services A...
