Robin Braun, a technology executive with over two decades of industry experience, has been named vice president of artificial intelligence and data strategy at Government Acquisitions, Inc. She will lead the development and delivery of advanced AI and data analytics technologies tailored to government customers’ mission requirements and help d...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is soliciting letters of interest from companies that can build a cybersecurity operations facility at Fort Meade in Maryland. The service branch on Tuesday issued a sources sought notice for a potential 36-month design-bid-build contract valued between $100 million and $250 million. The facility, which will house th...
Accenture Federal Services CEO John Goodman is being honored by Executive Mosaic for the seventh time with the 2024 Wash100 Award for his leadership of the company’s initiatives to help government agencies strengthen their information security infrastructure. Vote for Goodman as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index slipped 0.17% to $4,788.02 on Feb. 16, 2024, but it was enough for a 0.99% weekly gain. On the other hand, Wall Street’s three major indexes snapped their five-week winning streaks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 lost 0.11% and 0.42% overall, while the Nasdaq shed 1.34% during the wild...
GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) will receive a potential $1.5 billion investment from the Department of Commerce through the CHIPS and Science Act to build and expand new manufacturing capabilities to produce more semiconductor chips for automotive, defense, aerospace, artificial intelligence, internet of things and other applications. The company sai...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) saw its engineering and support revenue increase 74 percent to $31.1 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, driven by a rise in U.S. government activity, and posted a record total revenue of $790.7 million for the full year, up 10 percent from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based satellite commu...
David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD has published a strategy, a reference architecture and an implementation plan to achieve a zero trust-based architecture by 2027, DefenseScoop reported Thursday. “We want to achieve targeted zero trust by...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) was awarded a $143 million task order to support the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Intelligence Integration Center. The company announced Thursday that it was chosen for the design and implementation of the center’s Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination system. The indefinite-delivery...
New Directions Technologies has won a potential five-year, $111.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide test, system and transition engineering support services. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division launched a competitive procurement process through a small business set-aside program and received three offers for the cost-plus-fixe...
Cindy Bishop, formerly senior director of capture and business development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of enterprise capture, according to a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over three decades of industry experience in business development and account management. Before joining Leidos, Bishop was VP o...
