New York-based cybersecurity services provider BlueVoyant has purchased 202 Group for an undisclosed sum in a move to bring a supply chain risk management offering to the federal market. The combined entity aims to offer an integrated offering that will work to help government customers manage potential risks to vendor ecosystems across agency progr...
The Government Accountability Office decided to sustain Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) protest of a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract that the National Security Agency awarded to Amazon Web Services in July, Nextgov reported Friday. “GAO found certain aspects of the agency’s evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recomme...
George Wilson, president of ASGN’s (NYSE: AGN) ECS subsidiary and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, will retire by the end of 2021 and be succeeded by ECS Chief Operating Officer John Heneghan. Ted Hanson, president and CEO of ASGN, said Wednesday during the company’s quarterly earnings call that Wilson, who has been with ECS since...
GovernmentCIO and its Salient CRGT subsidiary will consolidate the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enterprise information technology systems under a seven-year, $875 million task order. GovCIO said Thursday it will apply DevSecOps and Agile approaches to help the DEA build an integrated IT infrastructure for 16,000 agency users as part of th...
A network access service developed by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) has received a provisional authorization to operate at impact level 5 from the Department of Defense as confirmed by a DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide release. The company said Thursday the IL5 authorization enables Zscaler Private Access zero trust platform to handle governm...
John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company closed two acquisitions in the mission technology area during the first quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. “We acquired two companies that provide mission technology to sensitive government customers. The capabilities include ope...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $298.2 million contract modification to repair common unmanned aircraft system components for the U.S. Air Force. USAF tasked the company to service sensor suites, launch and recovery equipment and mission controls of both the MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4B Global Hawk platforms, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, was presented his fourth Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a 4×24 membership dinner on Tuesday evening. “Those that know Anthony Robbins recognize that he is a larger than life magnetic per...
A joint venture led by BWX Technologies‘ (NYSE: BWXT) technical services subsidiary will perform environmental management work for the Department of Energy at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina under a potential 10-year, $21 billion contract. The Savannah River Mission Completion team will treat or dispose of liquid waste and may manage...
Potomac Officers Club hosted its Winning With the Network: Securing Data in Motion to the Tactical Edge, the latest event in POC’s JADC2 Series, to bring together the members of the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry to learn more about how the Department of Defense and its commercial partners are leveraging advanced 5G,...
