TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 ” David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector business at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has identified open source training as an approach that the federal government can take to advance the cybersecurity and information technology skills of its workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “...
Technical Services Corp. has purchased Virginia-based Accelerated Development & Support and rebranded as ADS Federal as a result of the acquisition. ADS Federal Angel Diaz said in a statement published Monday the combined firm will leverage ADS™ experience supporting the Department of Defense and identify critical requirements in ...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has received a two-year, $91.5M contract modification to support the dry-docking planned incremental availability of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy. General Dynamics NASSCO will conduct depot-level maintenance, alteration and modification efforts intended to update mi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 3, 2018 ” A spacecraft that Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built for NASA has traveled the farthest among any spacecraft in history after it reached its target object in the Kuiper Belt, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The lab said Tuesday the New Horizons mission has flown pa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 2, 2018 ” David Young, senior vice president of strategic government at CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), has said the extension of the deadline for agencies to transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract makes the program more feasible when changing contractors, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 11. Young sai...
The National Institutes of Health has released a list of awardees on the Section 8(a) track of a potential four-year, $20B governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology and health IT support services. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says there are four confirmed 8(a) awardees on the on-ramp Chief Information Office...
Kathryn Woodward, formerly senior director of business development at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been appointed a director of business development at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday. She has led GDIT’s efforts to identify business opportu...
Rob Roy, public sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions, has said information technology modernization offers agencies an opportunity to make incremental changes to address cybersecurity risks. Roy wrote that agencies should consider alternatives to an all-or-nothing type of encryption, which could provide hackers a ...
President Donald Trump is expected this week to order the creation of a new combatant command that would focus on space, CNN reported Monday. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Tuesday the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Pentagon this week to talk about the administration™s plan for a new space force....
Philip Kenul, a former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s homeland security office and head of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, has been named a consultant of ECS‘ science and engineering division. The retired NOAA Corps rear admiral will provide research, strategic development ...
