The conversation surrounding cryptocurrency and other digital assets has gained new context in the U.S. federal government following the release of a highly-anticipated document from the Federal Reserve on digital currencies. The Federal Reserve’s paper, Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, d...
Bradley Jacobs, former senior vice president of finance at BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary, has joined the board of directors of Ashburn, Virginia-based cybersecurity company Telos (Nasdaq: TLS). Jacobs has worked as an industry consultant on government contract bid protests and an adjunct professor at Rollins College since 2015, according to his...
Anduril Industries has won a $967.6 million contract to serve as an industry partner of U.S. Special Operations Command for a counter-unmanned system prototyping project. The Irvine, California-based technology company will help SOCOM integrate systems under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, follow-on production contract, the Department o...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad agency announcement framework for strategic commercial enhancements in October 2021 with commercial radar as the first focus area. The agency’s Strategic C...
GovernmentCIO has unveiled an updated logo and changed its name to GovCIO to mark the company’s expansion into new federal agencies and reflect its corporate growth and additional information technology service offerings. The rebranding effort came after GovCIO acquired IT services contractor Salient CRGT in August 2021, creating a combined entity...
John Boyle, group president of defense and civilian solutions at Cherokee Federal, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Thursday. He discussed the company’s acquisition of Preting Consulting, push into the intelligence community, work in the federal health care industry and growth in the government...
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, spoke at length on the “booming” space economy, growing adversarial threats in the space domain and the nation’s most pressing space capability gaps in a closing keynote address during the Space Acquisition Forum, hosted by GovCon Wire Events on Wednesday...
A joint venture between Rhode Island-based construction firm Gilbane and German engineering company Zueblin has secured a $969 million contract to build a hospital for the U.S. Army at a military garrison in Kaiserslautern, Germany. For the Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center Replacement project, the industry team will construct a 985,000-square-...
Kim Crider, a retired U.S. Air Force major general and former chief innovation and technology officer for the U.S. Space Force, has been appointed to lead artificial intelligence innovation for national security efforts within Deloitte’s government and public services practice. Crider will work with government agencies to further advance their ado...
Joel Machen, formerly vice president of product development for Inmarsat‘s government business arm, has joined SpiderOak Mission Systems to serve as VP of program management for zero trust hybrid space security products. Dave Pearah, CEO SpiderOak, said in a statement published Thursday Machen will be responsible for supporting delivery of Orb...
