Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, described four tools he believes government agencies should implement as part of in-depth network defense against encrypted cyberattacks such as ransomware. In a guest piece for FedTech magazine published Wednesday, he urged agency information technology ...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) has won a potential five-year, $480 million contract for architectural and engineering services to Department of the Navy environmental action programs within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic’s area of responsibility. The company will help manage DON’s munition response and environmental restoration ...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential $376.4 million contract to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency improve and sustain Structured Observation Management storage and production capabilities and integrate such capabilities with computer vision processing. A contract award notice published Wednesday says CACI wil...
Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and a six-time Wash100 awardee, said the company merged its information technology and mission systems business segments into a single reporting unit called the technologies group, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. “This new reporting reflects the way we manage thes...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business unit has secured a potential two-year, $129.4 million contract to provide logistics support for the U.S. Air Force’s C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft fleet. The company’s aeronautics segment will receive $31.5 million through a task order under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the ...
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has secured a $625 million contract modification to supply 500,000 more doses of the company’s COVID-19 monoclonal antibody drug to the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command obligated the full amount of the modification using fiscal 2021 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds, the Department of Defe...
The U.S. Army has issued three firm-fixed-price contracts worth $570 million combined for dry-dock and fleet maintenance services at designated locations in support of the military branch’s watercraft vessels. Fourteen companies landed spots on a $235 million contract for fleet modifications, on-condition routine maintenance, repairs and dry-dock ...
Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) in an all-cash deal worth $7.1 billion and plans to merge the latter with Peraton to establish a government technology platforms provider focused on delivering end-to-end information technology capabilities and mission support to U.S. government clients. Perspecta stockholders will get $29...
James Loeblein, formerly vice president of naval requirements and capabilities at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business, has been appointed to su Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as corporate VP of customer affairs. HII said Tuesday Loeblein succeeds the retiring Dan Holloway and will lead outreach work for ...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) will provide asset management support for U.S. Navy operations at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia under a potential eight-year, $421 million contract. The company said Tuesday it is scheduled to commence work on June 1 and will help the service branch manage infrastructure assets supporting force protection, utilities, tra...
