Guidehouse and ReefPoint Group have created a joint venture that aims to help federal civilian, defense and commercial clients transform health care delivery with the use of information technology. Taurian Consulting emerged from a partnership between the two companies under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program and will o...
The White House has issued an executive order that will direct government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour. The new policy will require all federal agencies to include the raise in new contract solicitations by Jan. 30, 2022 and implement the higher wage into new...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed leader to the cybersecurity and government contracting (GovCon) sectors as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has released his latest article with the program. Previously, Brooks discussed the details in understanding cybersecurity in our sector, its massive capa...
Former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive Edward Sebold and General Electric (NYSE: GE) veteran Una Pulizzi have been appointed to respectively serve as general counsel and head of global affairs at Kyndryl, a new managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM. Sebold previously led Big Blue’s legal teams that worked with its Watson Healt...
Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project ...
Rob Silvers, recently nominated for undersecretary for Strategy Policy and Plans for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was named a winner of the 2021 Wash100 Award for the first time in his federal career for leading the efforts to defend our national security through cyber defense, policy and improve our nation’s cyber capabilities to...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement plans to award three separate contracts for services in support of the development of a platform that will help the Homeland Security Investigations unit probe transnational crimes and threats. ICE said in a beta SAM notice posted April 14 the Repository for Analytics i...
The Six Pillars of a Zero Trust Security Model for 2021 By Antonio Redding, Cybersecurity...
Bollinger Shipyards has bought the Houma, Louisiana-based shipyard division of Gulf Island Fabrication (Nasdaq: GIFI) for approximately $28.6 million in a move to expand construction or repair work in the military and commercial shipbuilding markets. The deal includes a 437-acre waterfront facility, four drydocks and existing contracts to build vess...
Terence Emmert, acting deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, was selected by Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, as a recipient of a 2021 Wash100 Award for the first time in his long federal ca...
