Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday officially unveiled U.S. Space Command as the 11th unified combatant command led by Air Force Gen. John Raymond. “Gen. Raymond is acutely aware of the vital role that space plays in U.S. national security and our way of life and is an ideal choice to lead this new command,” Esper, a 2019 Wash100 winner,...
Barry Broadus, former chief financial officer of nonprofit research organization SRI International, has been appointed to service in the same position at McLean, Va.-based information technology services provider Dovel Technologies....
The Federal Aviation Administration has given General Atomics' aeronautical systems business a certificate of waiver or authorization to use a ground-based sense and avoid system in unmanned flight operations in North Dakota....
An annual report by management consulting firm Atlas Research shows how the company helps federal agencies such as the departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services address health challenges and improve health care....
Mark Forman, former head of the global public sector business at Unisys (NYSE: UIS), has been appointed as vice president of digital government within the company's federal arm. He will lead innovation efforts meant to help customer agencies manage mission outcomes through digital transformation and cloud computing approaches, Unisys said Mond...
FedPoint, a joint venture between TurningPoint and DSFederal, has won a task order to provide help desk support to contact centers administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rockville, Md.-based FedPoint said Monday it will help the CMS address technical support requests from call center customers regarding the Medicare...
The Washington Headquarters Services has awarded a four-year, $100M contract to Signature Renovations for construction services at the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., and surrounding reservation area. The company will perform design-build and bid-build work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defen...
This week, Capital One signed an agreement to acquire KippsDeSanto & Co., a leading investment banking firm focused on serving growth-oriented aerospace/defense, government services and technology companies. œJoining Capital One was a natural next step in the growth plan for us at KippsDeSanto, said Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and manag...
David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that there are four best practices federal information technology administrators should consider adopting to support their agencies’ IT modernization efforts and one is focusing on people and processes....
Anne Hughes, a more than 30-year health care industry veteran, has been named vice president of business development at Cognosante's civilian health unit, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. Cognosante is headquartered in Falls Church, Va., and offers technology and business process outsourcing services to government health organizations....
