Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has cleared a memo ordering agencies to implement the six recommendations by a tiger team to accelerate and strengthen the foreign military sales process in support of the 2022 National Defense Strategy. The first three recommendations are improving DOD’s unders...
Naval Air Systems Command has chosen a partnership between GALT Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. to move into the second and third phases of an industry competition to build a network pod capable of supporting MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. Under the SkyTower 2 Airborne Network Extension program, the...
Luke McFadden, a two-decade government contracting industry veteran, has joined Gunnison Consulting Group‘s homeland and justice division as senior vice president. He will primarily oversee Gunnison’s go-to-market strategy for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the information technology services provider said Wednesday. &...
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to continue its purchase of engineering technical and maintenance support services for C, D, E and F variants of the F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $1.8 billion foreign military sales agreement. Sigmatech, Kay and Associates, KBR (NYSE: KBR), L3Harris Techno...
D-Fend Solutions has named two vice presidents and one general manager to help the counter-drone technology provider accelerate its growth initiatives in the U.S. market. The company on Tuesday announced the appointments of S. Danny Rajan as U.S. general manager, Michael Langman as vice president of strategic partnerships and Brett Feddersen as VP o...
Cadmus will continue to help the Environmental Protection Agency provide safe drinking water to the public under a five-year, $162 million recompete contract. The environmental consulting firm said Tuesday it will assist EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water in enforcing the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act to implement pu...
GovCIO received recognition from the Association for Corporate Growth’s National Capital chapter for notable company accomplishments in 2022 such as achieving a 25 percent annual revenue increase and booking $1.3 billion in contracts. The Fairfax, Virginia-based IT contractor said Tuesday it won ACG National Capital’s Corporate Growth Co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) have partnered with the intent to advance chip technological innovation and strengthen the resiliency and security of U.S. semiconductor supply chains for mission-critical security systems. GF and Lockheed will identify critical needs in secure chip manufacturing and innovation across sev...
The United States now regularly and publicly participates in cyber warfare. However, 20 years ago — even as recently as a decade ago — this was highly classified information, not permitted in the Title 10 or Title 50 spaces. It has only been in recent years that such practices have become more normalized and widely...
It’s a cliché at this point to say the government moves slowly in terms of technology modernization and procurement of new tools and services. However, sometimes societal occurrences and world events come knocking and shake bureaucracy out of its glacial processes, forcing the federal sector to act sooner and faster. The combined effects of major...
