Of the $15 billion in supplemental wartime spending in the 2017 federal spending bill, $2.5 billion will be withheld until 15 days after the president provides Congress with a strategy to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS). The defense secretary and secretary of state will also be required to update the Armed Services, Foreign Relations, Intellige...
Peter Fuller, president and chief operating officer of Cypress International and a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Army, has joined Mission Ready Services as chairman of the board of directors. The retired Army major general succeeds Rod Reum, who resigned from the chairman post and will retain his duties as a director of Mission Rea...
Bajinder Paul, formerly associate director at the Federal Reserve System, has joined InfoZen as vice president of strategy and solutions for the Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology services provider™s federal business. Raj Ananthanpillai, chairman, CEO and president of InfoZen, said in a statement released Monday the company expects...
Weekly Roundup April 24 – April 28 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson For months, we™ve all been reading about the proposed wall along our nation™s southern borders, headlines describing the billions of dollars that will be needed to fund such an...
Just hours before the deadline, Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government for an additional week. The House voted 382 to 30 Friday to approve the spending deal and the Senate unanimously approved it. House and Senate staffers and appropriators will work through the weekend to hammer...
House Republicans introduced a stop-gap funding measure late Wednesday night to keep the government funded through May 5, while lawmakers hammer out final legislation that would fund the government through September. The continuing resolution measure, introduced by House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), would keep the government ...
Vectrus Systems (NYSE: VEC) has won a potential $115 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue operations and maintenance, information technology support and supply services for the U.S. Army Europe, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command. The company said Wednesday the Operations, Maintenance and Supply“Europe contract h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQLORupJL4 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Army Gen. John Nicholson, Commander, Resolute Support and United States Forces Afghanistan, brief the media in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 24, 2017...
The U.K.’s ministry of defense has awarded MBDA three contracts worth $689 million combined to produce and maintain various missile systems for the British armed forces. MBDA will supply Meteor and Common Anti-air Modular Missile weapons as well as maintain Sea Viper missiles in support of various ships ...
So far through fiscal year 2017, the Federal government has spent $612.2 billion on contracts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS,) almost six times the amount spent on the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Homeland Security. The majority of the money awarded to HHS, $555.9 billion,...
