Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Byron Bright, president of KBR Government Solutions, as an inductee to the 2024 edition of the Wash100 Award for his exceptional contributions to advancing government technology innovation. Vote for Bright as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition! Voting closes on ...
The digital component of the U.S. government’s broader modernization goals has become more critical in recent years as the digital landscape expands and uncovers new opportunities and needs. And at Fearless Digital, Alka Bhave is working to enable effective digital transformation for government customers. Bhave, who became president of Fearless ...
The Department of Energy’s office of the chief information officer has begun soliciting information on potential industry sources that could provide information technology professional services across the enterprise under the second iteration of the CIO Business Operation Support Services blanket purchase agreement. DOE intends to identify potenti...
The Small Business Administration issued interim guidance on the 8(a) Business Development Program after a U.S. District Court ruled that SBA should be precluded from using the “presumption of social disadvantage” in administering the program. SBA said Friday it also released interim guidance for federal agencies to enable them to continue...
The Office of Strategic Capital was stood up in December of last year, marking a decisive move by the Department of Defense to direct financial support to the technology industry. OSC is particularly interested in funding projects and organizations related to “advanced materials, next-generation biotechnology and quantum computing,” per rep...
Pluribus Digital will help the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services manage biometric information under a four-year, $135 million task order awarded through the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule contract, Biometric Update reported Monday. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company was among the 10 bidders that pursued...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile In many ways, the contracts team within an aerospace and defense or government contracting organization plays the role of “air traffic control” for each federal contract — from those they consider pursuing (pre-flight), to those they win and manage (execution), to contract close-out (flight plan...
The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration have agreed to provide more contracting opportunities for 8(a) contractors and facilitate the use of the Multiple Award Schedule for agency customers under an updated partnership agreement for the program. GSA said Tuesday it is collaborating with SBA to create a new 8(a) pool...
The Department of Defense has been working on creating a Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity strategy that is expected to be released by the end of the year, according to DOD Acting Principal Deputy CIO David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner. “If you’ve done business with us, you know that there’s a variety of folks withi...
