The General Services Administration is soliciting input from industry as it plans to launch a follow-on acquisition for the Commercial Platforms program in accordance with a provision of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which seeks to create an initiative to enable federal agencies to buy commercial items through e-commerce p...
The Senate on Thursday voted 68-31 to pass a $1.5 trillion budget package to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2022, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature, The Wall Street Journal reported. The omnibus package would provide $782 billion for the Department of Defense, which...
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector organization, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. GovCon Expert David Egts provided a breakdown looking into the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has made on the digitization of federal agencies during his first fe...
President Joe Biden has instructed the U.S. government to assess the potential benefits and risks of establishing a central bank digital currency and address other issues amid the rise in the adoption of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. The executive order outlines a national policy for digital assets with the goal of protecting U.S. consu...
DC Capital Partners has acquired aerospace component manufacturer uAvionix for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2015, uAvionix provides small form factor communications, surveillance and navigation avionics for manned and unmanned aircraft systems and develops aviation safety systems to facilitate the integration of UAS into the National Airspace ...
ExecutiveBiz featured Ryan Legge, president of analytics at BigBear.ai, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He discussed the company’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, its efforts to drive data-driven decision-making structure at the U.S. Army as well as its support for customers in t...
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to replace a tactical ground-based radar system used to carry out airspace defense operations. USAF said Wednesday it will exercise an option of a previously awarded contract to procure the company’s AN/TPY-4(V)1 technology for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar produc...
Xavier Beale, vice president of trades at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division, will transition to a new role that expands the scope of his current work to include human resources responsibilities. HII said Wednesday Beale will take over the Newport News HR leadership role from Susan Jacobs, who will jo...
Saab has secured a $122 million modification to a contract with the U.S. Marine Corps for the production and delivery of force-on-force training systems. The modification includes a $54 million order booked in 2021 and options that would raise the potential value of the FoFTS-Next contract to $248 million, Saab said Wednesday. USMC chose the...
Arcfield has appointed Lori Becker, former chief financial officer of Sierra Nevada Corp., to the CFO position and named Mike Smith, a 23-year U.S. Secret Service veteran, chief security officer of the Chantilly, Virginia-based systems engineering and integration contractor. Both newly appointed executives will report to Arcfield Chairman and CEO Ke...
