Catherine Urban, formerly deputy chief financial officer of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been appointed to succeed Mark Hughes as CFO of ACT I. She will directly report to ACT I CEO Michael Niggel and will bring to the role decades of business operations and finance experience with oversight of the company’s program contro...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will provide initial funding for five pilot programs that the Digital Dollar Project intends to launch to explore potential use cases and future designs of a U.S. central bank digital currency. The pilot programs will analyze and identify functional and technical requirements, evaluate benefits and challenges, look at use cases...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has received a $318 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration deploy equipment for the security screening of checked passenger bags at airports managed by the federal government. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will expand the fielding of baggage screening platforms to aro...
Marlborough, Massachusetts-based medical technology company Hologic will supply COVID-19 diagnostic tools to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $178.5 million contract. The Army’s Health Contracting Activity ordered Panther Fusion and Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assays, multiplex test kits and various related consumable items through the firm-fixed-price...
A Maximus (NYSE: MMS) business unit has been awarded a potential $951 million contract to support a national hotline program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, according to a General Services Administration award notice posted on SAM.gov. GSA issued the sole-source contract to Maximus Federa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 3, 2021 — MetTel will help the National Archives and Records Administration implement a software-defined wide area network under a potential $65 million task order awarded via the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, ExecutiveBiz reported April 15. “NARA requires a modern network to enable staff to communicate fro...
The Department of Defense will cancel all projects related to border wall contruction that are backed by funds initially intended for military projects, missions and functions in compliance with President Joe Biden’s proclamation. “DOD has begun taking all necessary actions to cancel border barrier projects and to coordinate with interagency par...
Noblis will advise and assist the Department of Homeland Security on projects to defend against weapons of mass destruction under a prime contract worth potentially $99 million over five years. The nonprofit company said Wednesday it will support the DHS’ Countering WMD Office across programmatic, administrative, scientific, research and syste...
President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, who was the U.S. Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology from 2012 to 2016, to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering. Shyu serves on the boards of multiple technology and investment companies, such as Auterion Government Sol...
President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
