George Pedersen, co-founder of ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), has retired as a member of the board and chairman emeritus after a five-decade career with the Herndon, Virginia-based defense contractor. He helped establish ManTech in 1968 with a U.S. Navy contract for simulation and modeling services, the company said Wednesday. “I want to th...
GovCon Wire Events’ timely Information Security and Innovation Forum on Wednesday brought together prominent figures across government and industry to discuss how public and private sector organizations are working together to better fortify the United States’ critical information security and cybersecurity capabilities in response to the heigh...
BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) booked contract options worth potentially $1.04 billion combined in the fourth quarter of 2021 to manufacture components and supply fuel products for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. BWXT said Wednesday its nuclear operations group will provide component manufacturing services to support the U.S. Navy’s ...
DLT Solutions has received a five-year, $167.5 million contract to provide the Department of the Navy a turnkey system to procure Red Hat‘s information technology products and services. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps can gain access to open source software platforms and hybrid cloud service offerings through DLT’s Enterprise Agreement Pl...
ICF has been chosen by ServiceNow as its Americas U.S. Federal Partner of the Year for working with the cloud software provider to bring digital services to government clients. Fairfax, Virginia-based ICF said Tuesday it has completed more than 250 customer deployments on the digital workflow automation technology Now Platform during 2021 and has ge...
Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Potomac Equity Partners has purchased U.S. Mobile Health Exams, a provider of occupational health testing and health screening services to general industry workplaces. USMHE, founded by Paul Hassan, serves companies that must comply with requirements from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and th...
Dan Hushon, a technical leader and transformation executive, has joined Guidehouse as chief technology officer. He will oversee Guidehouse’s global technology strategy and investments in cloud computing and lead transformational initiatives as the company advances the delivery of digital platforms to the public sector and commercial markets, the c...
Kevin McCoy, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and former president of Canada-based Irving Shipbuilding, has been appointed to lead the government operations segment at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) as part of a reorganization move. BWXT said Tuesday it updated the company’s reporting structure into government and commercial business sectors to...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking novel approaches to building a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer through the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program. “If there’s an underexplored area of quantum computing showing promise for a faster breakthrough than we previously expected, we want...
The State Department has approved a $1 billion foreign military sales request to procure services and equipment from the U.S. government for a project to modernize Kuwait’s defense ministry headquarters complex. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will oversee life cycle design, construction, engineering, project management, facility and infrastr...
