A panel of three judges from a federal appeals court in Atlanta recognized the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-related contracting delays on the federal government but said it remains uncertain whether the current administration has the authority to implement a vaccine requirement for employees of federal contractors, Federal News Network reported Monda...
William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $108 million award to obtain long-lead items required for the initial production lot of the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider bomber planes. USAF said Wednesday the company will manufacture the program’s first batch on an assembly line employing technicians, processes and tools that have been applie...
Ken Hunzeker, former president and CEO of Vectrus (NYSE: VEC), has joined the board of directors for SparkCognition‘s subsidiary that develops artificial intelligence technology for government and national defense applications. The retired Army lieutenant general will serve on the board of SparkCognition Government Systems, where he brings mor...
Four small businesses have won two-year, basic ordering agreements worth $100 million combined to provide a range of contingent support services to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The minority-owned companies will assign personnel to assist ORNL across information technology, engineering, project management, busines...
Maurice Thomas, former senior director of corporate governance at Visual Connections, has been promoted to lead the Windsor Mill, Maryland-based information technology services provider as president. Thomas oversaw project portfolios valued at $300 million combined over the course of his government contracting industry career, Visual Connections sai...
EM Key Solutions has acquired Cortek, a Fredericksburg, Virginia-based federal technical services company, from DecisionPoint through a stock purchase agreement. EMKS CEO Mike Snyder said in a statement published Monday the combination of the company’s information technology, health platforms and consulting capabilities with Cortek’s experie...
John Goodman, chief executive of Accenture Federal Services (AFS), was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to AFS. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for John Goodman as one of your TEN votes to advocate for...
TTEC Holdings (Nasdaq: TTEC) has closed its purchase of Faneuil’s business that offers public sector citizen experience and smart city platforms. The combination seeks to support government agency functions such as including mobility, congestion management, fleet management, tolling, transportation and social benefits delivery, TTEC said Monda...
Two Six Technologies has purchased River Loop Security, which specializes in technical services meant to help customers protect internet of things and embedded devices. The two companies previously collaborated on programs in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and aim to continue joint technology development efforts, Two Six sa...
