President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $107 million contract modification to help the U.S. Air Force deploy telemetry and termination platforms for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company will support implementation work to meet the launch schedule of the USAF’s Flight Test Telemetry Termination Rapid Fielding progra...
Guidehouse and ReefPoint Group have created a joint venture that aims to help federal civilian, defense and commercial clients transform health care delivery with the use of information technology. Taurian Consulting emerged from a partnership between the two companies under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program and will o...
Stockholders at Cubic (NYSE: CUB) voted Tuesday to approve an amended buyout offer of Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management. Holders of approximately 70.3 percent of Cubic’s shares issued and outstanding as of March 18 voted in favor of the merger agreement, Cubic said Tuesday. In late March, Cu...
The White House has issued an executive order that will direct government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour. The new policy will require all federal agencies to include the raise in new contract solicitations by Jan. 30, 2022 and implement the higher wage into new...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a potential five-year, $447 million contract to help the National Security Agency gather signals intelligence and protect government networks from cyber threats. Work under the single-award contract will include the development of technology intended to assist agency efforts in providing data for U.S. lawm...
DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) will continue to help the Department of Veterans Affairs deliver prescriptions to former soldiers under a contract worth potentially $202 million over five years. The follow-on contract entails medical logistics support to the VA’s Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy locations using automated processing and delivery ...
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions has officially launched and appointed federal industry veteran Lynne Chamberlain as president of regulated markets and government. Chamberlain will oversee the company’s efforts in helping the U.S. government adopt enterprise Linux, edge, Kubernetes and other open source platforms to accelerate digital transformat...
Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project ...
The Defense Health Agency is seeking proposals for the establishment of a managed technology stack intended to support digital workforce transformation efforts under DHA’s program executive office responsible for modernizing electronic health records and data sharing platforms across the U.S. military. DHS said Thursday it seeks industry-based...
