Anduril Industries has secured a potential five-year, $99 million production other transaction agreement from the Defense Innovation Unit to make its counter-unmanned aircraft systems available for purchase by service branches. The P-OT agreement allows the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps to buy and sustain AndurilR...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has received a potential six-year, $729 million contract from the U.S. Army to consolidate enterprise resource planning systems into a single model to improve readiness and efficiency. Accenture Federal Services will provide the Army Shared Services Center with Agile development, organizational change m...
Sheldon D’Paiva of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Erik Pounds of NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) said their companies have partnered to come up with a platform meant to “democratize” access of agencies and other organizations to artificial intelligence by enabling them to layer the technology into their existing information technology environments. They said th...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) reported fiscal year 2021 second quarter sales of $17 billion, up 5 percent from the prior year period. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said Monday its earnings for the quarter were $6.52 per share, or $1.8 billion, representing a 73 cents per share growth over results a year ago. Lockheed’s aeronautics segment...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has hired seven former military and government officials and industry veterans to serve as partners on its Washington, D.C.-based federal global business services team. The company said Monday the key additions reflect its commitment to helping federal agencies advance information technology modernization efforts. Brian Davis, a reti...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), on Tuesday during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is an annual honor given to the elite members of the GovCon...
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the White House should reaffirm the importance of allies and partners in efforts to address defense industrial base resilience. McGinn told Government Matters host Francis Rose in an interv...
Gina Ortiz Jones, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, received Senate confirmation Thursday via unanimous vote to serve as undersecretary of USAF, nearly three months after President Biden nominated her for the branch’s second highest-ranking civilian position. She replaces Anthony Reardon, who has held the undersecretary post on an ...
Tim Conway, executive vice president and public sector group president of NTT Data and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, was featured on Thursday in the latest Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz to talk about the company’s recent contract wins and IT modernization challenges, his sales and business strategies to drive company growth...
Udaya Chundury, former chief technologist of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined information technology services provider MetroStar as vice president of solutions architecture. The 25-year management and IT consulting veteran will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of business platforms that involve big data, analytics cloud and enterp...
