Joe Bogosian, former project lead for Safran Defense USA, was appointed president and CEO of the U.S.-based defense and space business of the French multinational aerospace and defense company Safran, according to his LinkedIn post. Bogosian has been with Safran for over 15 years, initially serving as president and CEO of its U.S. business and...
Carahsoft Technology has secured a potential $172.8 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Department of Navy with VMware by Broadcom products and services. The DON Enterprise License Agreement BPA was made as part of a reseller or software publisher software category management deal for commercial-off-the-shelf information technology ass...
BAE Systems has secured a $365 million contract from NASA to build an air quality monitoring instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite constellation. The GeoXO Atmospheric Composition instrument is a hyperspectral spectrometer that will take hourly observations of air pol...
The Department of the Air Force has released a draft solicitation for a potential $750 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide professional services to U.S. Central Command Headquarters. The CENTCOM Headquarters IDIQ for Professional Services contract has a one-year base period with four option years and encompasses plann...
Alexandria, Virginia-based aftermarket services provider VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) has closed its acquisition of Turbine Controls, a Federal Aviation Administration-approved aircraft repair station, for $120 million in cash and common shares. John Cuomo, president and CEO of VSE, said in a statement published Wednesday that the acquisition presents an oppo...
Workforce is a determining factor of the success of any project, and it can be a challenge for federal agencies to find and recruit information technology experts and train their existing staff – who are often used to traditional processes – on new technologies. Low-code software presents a solution to this problem. This programming method...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Those familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, especially its updated 2.0 version, know that its most significant shift from earlier Department of Defense cybersecurity efforts lies in the introduction of a tiered certification process. Unlike past standards, such as NIST SP...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded 18 companies positions on a 10-year, follow-on contract for professional, technical and scientific services in the oceans domain. NOAA competed the ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain contract as a total small business set-aside program with 19 offers received during the first phase and 19 propos...
One of the more ambitious missions of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent memory is its dynamic spectrum sharing, or DSS, framework. This initiative aims to identify a pathway to securely open up a spectrum band to commercial wireless users that is typically used for critical military purposes like missile deterrence. The DOD’s work...
By Bill Webner, CEO of Capgemini Government Solutions, in collaboration with Melissa Hatton, AI Strategy Lead at Capgemini Government Solutions; James Farnsworth, Chief U.S. Compliance & Regulatory Counsel at Capgemini America, Inc.; and Johnathan Duffie, Senior Legal Counsel & Americas AI Legal Lead at Capgemini America, Inc Artificial inte...
