Mark Esper, former defense secretary and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed a partner and chairman of the national security practice at venture capital firm Red Cell Partners. He will be responsible for overseeing investment and business development activities across defense, space, aerospace, cybersecurity and international affairs se...
Private equity firm Brightstar Capital Partners has agreed to acquire Oasis Systems with its portfolio company ERC to expand cybersecurity, engineering and technology-focused consulting offerings for aerospace and defense customers worldwide. Brightstar said Wednesday it expects the transaction to close in the second quarter of 2022 and the combined...
The General Services Administration announced that the upcoming Federal Marketplace Spring 2022 release will include information on a new platform for the buyer experience that was developed using human centered design principles and feedback from federal agency buyers, acquisition professionals and suppliers. GSA said Wednesday the updated buyer ex...
Dan Voce, senior vice president for enterprise cyber and solutions at Leidos, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He discussed digital modernization in defense, civil and health markets, the company’s recent growth initiatives and the impact of M&A activities to Leidos portfolio and tec...
The U.S. subsidiary of British infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has won a $697.8 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide design and construction services to Fort Meade in Maryland. The project involves work on the fourth East Campus Building and a new parking structure on the military installation, the Department of...
Dan Odom has joined the national security segment of Guidehouse as a senior strategic adviser following a more than two-decade stint at the FBI, where he most recently served as section chief. The consulting services provider said Wednesday Odom will assist clients in technology development and application to mitigate cybersecurity and national secu...
Naitik Vyas, a sales and account management professional in the public sector software industry, has been named director of federal sales at Gaithersburg, Maryland-based information technology provider AINS. He has worked with multiple federal clients over the course of his career and will be part of AINS’ senior leadership team, the company s...
NASA has started a market research effort with the goal of identifying companies and universities with the capacity to design high-speed commercial vehicle systems and develop technology roadmaps to support the baseline vehicle concepts. The agency said Wednesday in a sources sought notice that it envisions a design study project that would initiall...
Twenty-one companies have won spots on a five-year, $450 million contract to provide design-build services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Facility Repair and Renewal program. USACE received 80 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Contractors will compete to carry out projects at...
Taimeka Hollis, formerly chief operating officer at Illuminate, has elevated to the role of president at the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics company. She brings to the role over 20 years of leadership experience in business development, strategy, engineering and operations, Illuminate said Tuesday. Prior to Illuminate, Hollis spent 17 years at Nor...
