McAfee‘s (Nasdaq: MCFE) enterprise business and FCN will provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with cybersecurity tools and expertise under a five-year, $281 million contract to support the agency’s compliance with a recent executive order on strengthening the federal government’s defenses against malicious cyber campaigns. Th...
Kimberly Lebak, an executive in Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named as head of an HII and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) joint venture that performs cleanup work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. HII said Tuesday that Lebak will oversee the $1.4 ...
Four small businesses have won positions on a $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to perform facilities support work at government installations located in six states. Chugach Consolidated Solutions, Claxton/LT joint venture, KGJJ Engineering Solutions JV and Sunik will compete for task orders under the mu...
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...
