In 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order calling on agencies to elevate the experience of individuals using government services. Since then, federal organizations have heightened their focus on the customer experience, or CX, for both the public and internal employees. During a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s The CX Imp...
The Department of Defense is perpetually concerned with how to best diffuse and counteract missile threats from near-peer adversaries. Hence, systems like the U.S. Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability, or IFPC. This deterrence mechanism is meant to dispose of incoming cruise missiles and drones and protect fixed and semi-fixed targets from ...
Melissa Johnson is the Acquisition Executive at the U.S. Special Operations Command. She is one of the speakers for the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit. Get to know Melissa Johnson’s background and professional achievements here. Who is Melissa Johnson? Melissa Johnson is a Senior Executive Servic...
U.S. Transportation Command has awarded International Auto Logistics a potential eight-year, $2.2 billion contract to provide personnel, training and equipment to support the shipment and storage of privately owned vehicles of uniformed service members and civilian employees within the Department of Defense. USTRANSCOM disclosed the award of the Glo...
Stuart Kupinsky, former senior vice president and general counsel at Blackboard, now an Anthology company, has been appointed executive VP and chief legal officer at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He will manage the company's overall legal strategy covering intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions and enterprise contracts....
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded four companies spots on a potential seven-year, $794.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development services. The IDIQ has a base ordering period of five years and two option years and provides for R&D services in support of the NGA's Research a...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) reported an 11.2 percent year-over-year increase in revenues to $1.8 billion during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024 and saw its adjusted diluted earnings per share grow 2 percent to $4.36 for the quarter ended Dec. 31. CACI said Thursday it ended the quarter with a total backlog of $26.9...
The Department of Labor awarded Parsons (NYSE: PSN) a potential five-year, $115 million contract to provide management support to the Job Corps Acquisition Services. The company said Thursday that it has been cleared to continue assisting in project planning and management of the JCAS Facilities Program. Parsons has been under contract with JCAS sin...
Firefly Aerospace has been qualified to compete for task orders under a potential 10-year, $700 million contract to provide its Alpha rocket to launch small satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. The company will serve as a launch service provider under the Streamlined Launch Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract to deploy NRO...
Washington, D.C.-based Arlington Capital Partners has combined three businesses to form and unveil Keel, a new portfolio company focused on producing complex structures for U.S. defense programs, and closed its latest fund with $3.8 billion in total capital commitments. Keel is led by CEO Brian Carter, most recently chief executive of Pegasus Steel,...
