NASA has awarded SpaceX a potential $843 million contract to build and deliver a spacecraft designed to deorbit the International Space Station after the end of the orbiting laboratory’s operational life in 2030. The space agency said Wednesday it will own and operate the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle throughout its mission and that the launch service...
Alfred Gonzalez, most recently director of cybersecurity at Cubic’s digital intelligence division, has taken on the role of chief information security officer at Ultra Intelligence & Communications. He announced his move to Ultra I&C in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. In his new role, Gonzalez will oversee the company’s product deve...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential one-year, $534 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide systems engineering, development and testing support services for the Conventional Prompt Strike program. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification includes an optional line i...
Edgewater Federal Solutions has promoted Chris Christianson, a cybersecurity leader, to chief information security officer. In this capacity, Christianson will oversee Edgewater’s programs to improve its corporate security posture and best practices, develop cyber capabilities and services and serve as a senior cyber adviser to business develo...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded $120 million in combined firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to ASRC Federal and Noble Supply and Logistics for facility support services. Both companies, each with a $60 million award, will continue providing DLA with facility maintenance, repair and operations supplies over a...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a potential five-year, $871 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply M762A1 and M767A1 electronic-time fuzes in support of U.S. missions and those of allies and partner countries. “This contract demonstrates our significant contribution to replenishing our nation’s critical munitions inventory,...
Chris DeRusha, most recently federal chief information security officer within the Office of Management and Budget and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined Google Cloud as director of global public sector compliance. “Building and protecting robust technology infrastructure is the incredible next chapter for global government and private sector ...
WidePoint (NYSE: WYY) has secured a $254 million ceiling increase in its Cellular Wireless Managed Services 2.0 contract from the Department of Homeland Security. The award raised the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s maximum value from $500 million to $754 million, the enterprise cybersecurity and mobile technology provider s...
Amy Johanek, formerly area vice president for federal civilian agencies at Splunk, has been appointed VP of federal at identity and access management company Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), according to her LinkedIn post. She assumed her new position after leading a team tasked with supporting the mission requirements of federal civilian agencies in the health...
Five companies have secured spots on a $1.5 billion contract to provide information technology, cybersecurity and administrative support services to the Washington Headquarters Services. The multiple-award contract covers the provision of information enterprise; cybersecurity; command, control and communications; IT management analytics and data ana...
