Ninety members of Congress wrote a letter to President Joe Biden urging his administration to direct the Department of Defense to increase its investment in F-35 aircraft production and sustainment efforts. “The U.S. must modernize our fighter inventory to ensure we can sustain a strong national defense and maintain an advantage to counter the pac...
Mario Bazan, former vice president of Salient CRGT‘s civilian services group, has joined General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as VP for government operations, G2Xchange reported Wednesday. His nearly three-decade career includes time at DSFederal, Vistra Solutions, Vignette, Computer Sciences Corp. and ICF (Nasdaq...
Envistacom has secured positions on two of the 10 pools of the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO contract vehicle for manned, robotics, optionally manned and unmanned platforms. The company said Wednesday it secured positions on development/systems integration and research pools of the ASTRO indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity co...
VMWare Federal Strategist Keith Nakasone was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. The discussions were focused on his move from the General Services Administration to VMware; company information technology offerings; cyber hygiene and compliance; the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Matur...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration intend to propose a rule as a potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to mitigate the risk of climate change in federal agency procurements. The agencies are considering introducing the rule in accordance with an executive order released in May that seeks to co...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) holds a prime position on all 10 pools of a General Services Administration contract vehicle for manned and unmanned technologies. GSA categorized the 10-year, ASTRO acquisition program into data operations; mission operations; aviation; space; maritime; ground; systems integration and development; research and develo...
Andy Read, former executive officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been named global head of government solutions at synthetic aperture radar satellite operator ICEYE. He brings to the role over 10 years of experience in natural catastrophe resilience, public policy and reinsurance as he oversees the company’s efforts to deliver a...
Vernon Saunders, an industry veteran and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed senior vice president of the national intelligence community unit at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC). He will report to Michael LaRouche, president of SAIC’s national security and space sector and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the co...
Comcast Government Services has acquired federal telecommunications provider Defined Technologies from Tysons, Virginia-based managed services company MicroTech for an undisclosed sum. Defined Technologies acts as a prime contractor on the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement v...
The General Services Administration has partnered with Guidehouse to develop strategies for the federal government to grow and manage its fleet of electric vehicles. Guidehouse said Tuesday it will help the GSA Office of Fleet Management to implement the company’s software suite comprising reporting, analytics and training tools. The Veritas C...
