TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 12, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), has commented on the 12th iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard shows how agencies rate in the cyber category, ExecutiveBiz reported July 29. “We should be lase...
Charles Onstott, chief technology officer for CALIBRE Systems, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He talked about his transition as CTO, the unique challenges on the business side of innovation and the ethical changes still to come as well as the major improvements of emerging technology in ...
Government Executive Media Group has acquired GovTribe for an undisclosed sum in a push to develop a full suite of data sources and tools intended to help vendors identify federal business opportunities. GovExec said Wednesday it seeks to combine a database of three million monthly engagers with GovTribe’s machine learning-based platform that ...
U.K.-based aerospace company Meggitt has received an unsolicited offer from TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) to acquire Meggitt for 900 pence in cash per share, or approximately $9.74 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday. The offer came a week after Parker-Hannifin (NYSE: PH), a Cleveland-based provider of motion and control technologies for aerospace and...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $157 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency update an integrated architecture that offers commanders a global view of the battlespace. The company said Tuesday it will perform Spiral 8.2-7 upgrade work on MDA’s Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications system to help Ground-B...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer for Technomile, published his first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday. In his first article of a two-part feature, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an informative guide into the contract lifecycle management of contract professionals in the federal landscape today while also...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business and Sierra Nevada have won positions on a potential 10-year, $774.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide soldiers with updated cryptographic key loading devices to help secure joint service network systems. Army Contracting Command received five bids for the Next Generation Load Devic...
Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
The Department of Commerce has posted a draft solicitation for its information technology services requirement and invited potential vendors and minority-owned small businesses to participate in two separate industry days meant to further inform them about the planned acquisition. The event for future primes will be hosted virtually on Thursday whil...
The U.S. Army has placed emphasis on readiness, end-strength and modernization requirements for the future battlefield to accommodate a $3.6 billion funding drop under the service branch’s $173 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022. “This budget puts people first, maintains force readiness and continues the irreversible modernization mo...
