President Joe Biden has signed an executive order delegating authority to the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense to release critical and strategic materials from the national defense stockpile. The order will cover the release of materials from the stockpile for national defense purposes only and exclude thos...
GovernmentCIO and its Salient CRGT subsidiary will consolidate the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enterprise information technology systems under a seven-year, $875 million task order. GovCIO said Thursday it will apply DevSecOps and Agile approaches to help the DEA build an integrated IT infrastructure for 16,000 agency users as part of th...
IDEMIA Identity & Security North America has named Lisa Sullivan as senior vice president of travel and transport and named Lisa Shoemaker as VP of government relations. The biometrics technology provider said Thursday it made the appointments in a move to grow work in the transportation sector and its presence inside the Beltway. Sullivan, a...
William O’Brien, a member of Mercury Systems‘ (Nasdaq: MRCY) board of directors since 2008 and former chairman of its audit committee, has been named as the company’s new chairman. He succeeds Vincent Vitto and brings to his new role 33 years of professional services industry experience that includes time as a global managing partn...
Federal health services provider OptumServe has named Robert Harsla, a former director at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as vice president of business development, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. At LexisNexis, Harsala worked in support of health care-focused programs under the departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare ...
An Amyx-Alpha Omega Integration joint venture has secured a $98 million contract to help the Securities and Exchange Commission manage electronic data on security law violations. The 3A LLC JV will support information processing work for the agency’s securities inspection, examination and legal proceeding activities under the Electronic Discov...
Luciana Borio, a specialist in medical and public health, has been appointed to the board of trustees at Noblis. She develops new investment opportunities in the areas of clinical trials, biologics manufacturing and novel therapies as a venture partner for ARCH Venture Partners, Noblis said Monday. Michael Chertoff, chairman of Noblis’ board o...
Cognosante has won a potential 10-year, $110 million task order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to plan, implement, test and oversee a managed cloud-hosted electronic faxing service. The company said Friday it will also provide resources, all needed capabilities and maintenance support for the commercial-off-the-shelf, Enterprise Cloud Fax s...
Jim Blankenhorn, senior vice president of operations at Amentum and a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, has been appointed to serve as head of the company’s technical services business starting Monday. In his new role, Blankenhorn will manage an organization that works with government and commercial clients to operate complex facilities, Am...
Douglas Harvey, a more than 20-year engineering operational management executive, has joined IDEMIA as chief technology officer of Identity and Security North America. He will help accelerate product innovation and design, work with technology teams to drive the adoption of digital engineering processes, advance the use of modern iterative developme...
