QinetiQ US has appointed Scott McGleish as its new chief growth officer to accelerate its expansion into strategic growth areas, particularly within defense and national security sectors. Who Is Scott McGleish? McGleish steps into the role with more than three decades of senior executive experience in aerospace and defense development and profit and...
LMI has secured a potential $116.7 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide professional support services to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. Contract Scope and Details The Department of Defense said Friday the contract operates on a level-of-effort basis for...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential five-year, $276 million contract to a joint venture of ThunderYard and Booz Allen Hamilton to meet VA’s data and analytics requirements. According to a notice published Wednesday on the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, VA received 16 offers for the Data and Analytics In...
ASRC Builders-Caddell has secured a $290.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has obligated $110.9 million in fiscal year 2025 military construction funds at the time of the award, the Department of Defense said...
Applied Information Sciences, or AIS, a provider of cloud and artificial intelligence technologies for the federal government, has acquired Dorrean. AIS said Thursday that the transaction is part of its efforts to expand its presence in the U.S. federal market and is in line with its goal of investing in high-impact mission areas. What i...
President Trump’s March 20 executive order “Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement” has major ramifications for GovCons. It will drastically change government acquisition by making the General Services Administration the lead for domestic federal procurement for common goods and services. The exe...
The General Services Administration has awarded Uber a five-year blanket purchase agreement to provide ridesharing services for federal employees, military personnel and government contractors supporting mission-related activities worldwide. GSA said Wednesday the BPA will help the federal government reduce travel costs and is part of the agencyR...
Phyllis Baker, a seasoned public sector consultant and cybersecurity professional, has been appointed senior vice president at Glasswall. Continuing Glasswall’s Data Security Mission In a LinkedIn post shared Wednesday, Baker expressed her excitement about her new position at the cybersecurity company specializing in content dis...
L3Harris Technologies has appointed Eric DiStasi as vice president of strategy and business development and general manager of its advanced missile programs. DiStasi confirmed his new role in a LinkedIn post Thursday. Who is Eric DiStasi? The executive is a long-time defense industry leader. He joined L3Harris in 2021 as director of corporate strate...
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has awarded contracts to four U.S. frontier artificial intelligence companies to advance the Department of Defense’s adoption of AI capabilities. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI were awarded contracts with a $200 million ceiling to develop agentic AI workflows for various mission are...
