William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
Guidehouse has named health experts Sarah Garnett and Kristin Porter as public sector health leader and head of the Department of Veterans Affairs account team, respectively, within the management consulting firm’s health segment. Garnett will bring to the role her experience working with leadership teams from federal health agencies, research ins...
Riverside Research booked contracts worth more than $53.9 million during the first quarter to help U.S. defense and intelligence customers develop technology for multiple program areas. The nonprofit organization said Thursday it will support government clients in systems and software engineering and commercial intelligence, surveillance and reconna...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded an additional $261.4 million to fund Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) preparations for lot 17 F-35 aircraft production. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company will obtain long-lead-time materials and support services necessary to manufacture nine carrier-based F-35 jets for the U.S. Navy and 15 c...
Nicholas Warner, chief operating officer of SentinelOne (NYSE: S) since 2019, has been named president of the company’s security division. Warner will focus on leading the development, expansion and delivery of autonomous cybersecurity offerings in his new position, SentinelOne said Thursday. He joined the Mountain View, California-based software ...
Executive Mosaic’s editorial team has completed the rollout of all 100 individual profiles on its ninth annual Wash100 selections to highlight the contributions of key leaders who drive government contracting activity from both public and private sector domains. The Wash100 site features this year’s full list of award recipients, an extr...
The General Services Administration has paused solicitations for the two pools of the small business-focused Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services to make way for an assessment following receipt of feedback regarding the evaluation of joint ventures under GWAC. GSA said Wednesday it is reviewing...
DMI has purchased Aurotech for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its technical capabilities in data and analytics, build up its portfolio of digital transformation services and expand its client base in federal markets. Aurotech was founded in 2007 and provides application development, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, digita...
Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu and member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He discussed the firm’s growth initiatives, the policy changes in acquisition regulations concerning the government contracting sector and the findings of ...
PM Consulting Group, a Towson, Maryland-based provider of professional support services to federal agencies in health care and international development areas, has received a strategic investment from Enlightenment Capital to help advance its growth strategy. “This partnership will allow us to better serve our current customers and reach new ones,...
