Conti Federal Services has secured a $135.5 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a maintenance hangar at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Orlando, Florida-based contractor, which won against three other bidders, is expected to complete the project by...
Data is the new gold, according to GovCon industry executives and leaders. And as organizations see more and more data, the need to process, understand and leverage it becomes increasingly important. In this Executive Spotlight interview, Hitachi Vantara Federal President and CEO Mark Serway spoke to us about the importance of data in government mi...
The U.S. government has sharpened its focus on cyber to keep up with the movement of information to digital systems. The 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity launched related concerns to the forefront of federal priorities, and the March 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy further entrenched cyber as a foundational element...
Prior to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, 5G technologies at the U.S. Department of Defense were incubated in its Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering, or OUSD(R&E). Symbolically, however, with the passing of the aforementioned annual budget three years ago, 5G projects were transferred to...
Physical and cyber threats are evolving and escalating. Aging infrastructure must be modernized. And tightening regulations and new mandates are pressing government leaders to improve transparency, productivity and sustainability. As a result, there is a critical need for federal agencies to advance their digital transformation. Siemens Government T...
The U.S. Army plans to award five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $467.7 million combined to provide research and development, engineering design, production and related support services for the Capabilities Development Command Armament Center at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The procurement effort is a total small busines...
Scale AI, a San Francisco-based provider of data labeling services for artificial intelligence development and training, has raised $1 billion in a Series F funding round led by venture capital firm Accel. With a valuation of $13.8 billion, Scale AI aims to expand its capabilities and offerings by building on its existing AI model evaluation...
Identity security company CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR) will acquire machine identity management company Venafi from Thoma Bravo for an enterprise value of approximately $1 billion in cash and approximately $540 million in shares. CyberArk said Monday it plans to create a unified platform for end-to-end machine identity security by combining its identity ...
CIA Chief Operating Officer Maura Burns was presented with her 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the prestigious recognition. The Wash100 Award is an honor presented to executives in the government contracting industry who have proven themselves as strong leaders and continuously...
NASA has awarded four companies indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $6 billion combined as part of the third on-ramp process to the fourth iteration of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition program. The space agency said Friday the vendors selected for On-Ramp III of the RAPID IV contract vehicle will provide spacecraft and related co...
