The General Services Administration has awarded 16 small businesses spots on the first phase of a potential $15B, 10-year contract to provide building maintenance and operations support for federal agencies at zone 1. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the companies will vie for task orders under the small business track of the on-ramp BMO...
Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Defense Department, has said DoD is working with antitrust regulators to find out if the proposed merger of L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) would have an impact on the œcompetitive landscape, Reuters reported Wednesday. œWe™re working throug...
Novetta has acquired Reston, Va.-based information technology services contractor Berico Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a move to broaden its cloud engineering capabilities and advance growth efforts. Novetta said Monday it completed the purchase on Nov. 7 and Baird acted as Berico™s exclusive financial adviser in the transaction. ̶...
Christopher Voci, former vice president and controller of Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems unit, has been named senior VP and corporate controller of CACI International (NYSE: CACI). Voci will oversee CACI’s accounting and financial reporting functions and help ensure its compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report saying Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) is œecstatic about the Bipartisan Budget Act™s shipbuilding funds for fiscal years 2018 and 2019. œ[W]e are in a great spot because ships have been authorized and appropriated in the 2018-2019 window, which takes a lot o...
Chris Townsend, vice president of federal business at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), has said agencies should work with industry to standardize cyber tools used to secure networks, endpoints and data in order to facilitate information sharing with other platforms. œReducing complexity through standardization can enhance protection at every level and ...
ECS has secured a prime spot on a potential five-year, $3B contract to provide professional and technical services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration™s National Marine Fisheries Service. œAs a prime contractor on ProTech Fisheries Domain, we are proud to lead a strong team including some of the nation™s ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2018 ” A group from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has won a seven-month competition organized by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity that sought to utilize crowdsourcing to help the intelligence community predict geopolitical events, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. T...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2018 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) plans to expand its workforce in Oklahoma over the next 10 years in support of information technology and other areas of work with customers in the government, military and commercial sectors, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the workforce expansi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 9, 2018 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has entered into a partnership with Sparton to help build an acoustic device countermeasure system that will work to protect U.S. Navy submarines from enemy torpedoes, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Sparton said Tuesday it will provide manufacturing services in support of Leid...
