Google’s cloud business has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to move its Secure Cloud Management platform into the production phase and implement the offering across DIU. The SCM offering, which Google Cloud developed with Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), adopts the zero trust approach and works to enable DIU users to gain...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 10, 2022 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) provided push-to-talk handsets and satellite connectivity in support of a U.S. Army Reserve program aimed at identifying, safeguarding and preserving cultural heritage sites in Honduras, ExecutiveBiz reported. Commenting on the company’s work on the Monuments Officers p...
Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, has been selected to the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most significant contributors in the government contracting sector — for the sixth consecutive year. “As our business continues to grow, I am grateful for the exceptional team we’ve built. Guidehouse is home to great talent,...
The Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business has released a playbook that advances a change in acquisition approach and mindset to ensure that the defense acquisition system can maintain its advantage over strategic competitors like Russia and China. The document proposed an “Acquisition Next” m...
The General Services Administration has selected 557 small businesses as second phase awardees on the potential $50 billion 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract for information technology services. GSA said Thursday the award of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC’s second cohort to underserved and disadvan...
Boeing will update acoustic analysis software used on the U.S. Navy’s Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft under a five-year, $94.9 million contract. Naval Air Systems Command tasked the company to perform engineering work and provide supplies that include defect package fixes for the P-8A Acoustic Operational Flight Program, the Department of De...
Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has received a $250 million cost-plus-fixed-fee task order from the U.S. Army to perform logistics support work for Fort Benning in Georgia. The award falls under the Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise contract and includes options that would extend services through December 2026, the company said Tuesday. Chuck Prow, pres...
New Jersey-based information technology company OM Group has won a seven-year, $485 million contract to consolidate and maintain the U.S. Air Force’s data center systems at Hill AF Base in Utah. OM Group will deploy applications and perform sustainment and onboarding work for the Hill Enterprise Data Center modernization project, the Departmen...
David Constable, CEO and a board member of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), has been appointed by the board of directors to serve as executive chairman of the Irving, Texas-based engineering, procurement and construction company. He will continue to hold the CEO title and succeed the retiring Alan Boeckmann, who will not seek reelection in May, the...
Pamela Braden, a 35-year veteran of the defense and technology sectors, has been named an operating partner at private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. She established and led Washington, D.C.-based engineering and technical services provider Gryphon Technologies, a former AEI portfolio company that ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT) acquired in December 202...
