ExecutiveBiz featured Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He discussed the opportunities in the government space as well as the procurement techniques and other keys to success for an emerging tech company seeking entry to the sector. Th...
Investment firm Shield Capital has appointed technology industry leaders Michael Brown and John “JJ” Jack as venture partners. Brown, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, and Jack will bring decades of management and industry leadership experience as the San Francisco-based venture capital firm looks to help government and commercial clients address challeng...
The Internal Revenue Service has briefed more than 150 vendors on a potential $2.1 billion multiple-award blanket purchase agreement covering enterprise program, project and integration services. Ali Pourghassemi, an IRS industry liaison officer, said the agency held a virtual industry day Thursday to discuss the firm-fixed-price and labor-hour cont...
Andrew Pahutski, a Department of Defense veteran with 27 years of civilian and military service, has been appointed vice president of economic security programs at Systems Planning and Analysis. Pahutski will be responsible for overseeing the development of the company’s portfolio of advanced analytics offerings in economic security and intern...
BAE Systems has received a potential five-year, $143 million contract from the U.S. Navy to continue providing engineering, management, information technology and maintenance support services to the military branch’s Surface Combat Systems Center in Wallops Island, Virginia. The company said Tuesday such services to be provided under the contract ...
NASA has awarded contracts to SpaceLink and the U.S. arm of Kongsberg Satellite Services to conduct studies aimed at exploring industry capabilities to provide commercial direct-to-Earth and lunar space relay communications and navigation services in support of Artemis lunar exploration missions. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded SpaceLink ...
The U.S. Army plans to launch a competition for a potential $1 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as part of a push to speed up the migration of existing systems to the cloud, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the servi...
Naval Sea Systems Command intends to extend the fifth ordering period and increase by $389 million the ceiling amount of multiple-award contracts for the sustainment of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships homeported in San Diego. The proposed increase will bring the total amount of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to $1....
Steve Shpock, formerly a vice president of Stellant Systems, has been elevated to the chief operating officer role at the defense electronics company. He has more than 35 years of radio frequency and microwave business experience and will be responsible for driving operational performance across Stellant-run manufacturing and engineering facili...
Todd Hughes, former senior vice president of technology of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI), has been appointed VP and chief innovation officer at autonomous software provider Scientific Systems Company Inc. Hughes will lead SSCI’s efforts to grow its work in the artificial intelligence-powered mission autonomy software area, the company said Thur...
