Sehlke Consulting, an Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting and professional services firm, has promoted 30 employees in line with its leadership initiatives like the Sehlke Mentorship Program. The company said Monday selected employees elevated to executive leadership positions as well as director, partner, lead manager and consultant rol...
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated William Burns, a 33-year U.S. Foreign Service veteran and current president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to be the CIA’s next director. Burns was deputy secretary at the State Department prior to his retirement in 2014 and recognized with three Presidential Distinguished Service Awa...
SAS has secured a potential $49.9M blanket purchase agreement to provide the Food and Drug Administration access to the company’s cloud-based artificial intelligence, analytic and data management platform. The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research will implement the SAS Viya platform in efforts to update drug regulatory processes...
R. Clarke Cooper, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, said the U.S. government is expected to sign a potential $23.37B deal for the sale of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jets, drones and other weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates before the Trump administration ends, Defense News reported Friday. “B...
President-elect Joe Biden plans to appoint Anne Neuberger, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as deputy national security adviser for cybersecurity within the National Security Council, Politico reported Wednesday. In this newly created position on NSC, Neuberger will oversee the coordination of...
Altamira Technologies will serve as the new team lead on its existing contractor teaming arrangement for the General Services Administration‘s potential five-year, $997 million MEGASTAR blanket purchase agreement. “We are excited to take on this Team Lead role on MEGASTAR which provides us with greater opportunities to support NASIC’s...
Isabel Guzman, director of California's Office of the Small Business Advocate, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as head of the Small Business Administration. The Biden transition team also announced the nominations of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to lead the departments of Commerce and La...
Seven companies have been awarded spots on a potential five-year, $990M U.S. Navy contract to build facilities, infrastructure and ranges at various locations throughout Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command's Pacific area of operations, DVIDSHub reported Wednesday. The Japanese government will finance construction projects that will tak...
During Potomac Officers Club’s 5G Summit, notable private and public sector executives will discuss the impact that innovative technologies and 5G integration have on the private and public sectors, the steps the federal agencies have taken to remain up to speed with the rapid advancement of technology, and the future programs, plans and prioritie...
Merrick Garland, a more than two-decade veteran of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has emerged as President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be the next U.S. attorney general, Politico reported Wednesday. Garland most recently served as the DC Circuit chief judge and previously received a nomination to serve in the U.S....
