The General Services Administration has asked industry for comments on plans to issue a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement as part of an acquisition strategy for enterprisewide cloud services. The BPA will enable federal, state and local government agencies to purchase and implement commercial software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-servic...
Jim Kelly, a vice president at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), has been promoted to senior VP for North America federal sales at the company. “Jim’s experience and drive make him an excellent leader to continue our strong momentum in this segment,” John Byrne, president of North America Sales at Dell, said in a statement. “I’m...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Defense Cybersecurity Forum on Wednesday, May 12th. If you missed the Defense Cybersecurity Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting GovCon Wire Event Archive. The Def...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — Peraton partnered with Pegasystems (Nasdaq: PEGA) and created a center of excellence in a move to help federal civilian customers transform citizen service delivery using the latter’s software, ExecutiveBiz reported May 5. Tarik Reyes, president of Peraton’s civil and health sector, said the partnershi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — The Defense Innovation Unit is reportedly nearing a decision on which among prototypes developed by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and McAfee (Nasdaq: MCFE) will be used by the unit as its secure cloud access management platform that will support collaboration between the Department of Defense and...
Arun Gupta, a 17-year partner at investment company Columbia Capital, has joined the board of directors at LMI. His work at the Alexandria, Virginia-based venture capital firm focuses on emerging technology investments across the federal services, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure and artificial intelligence segments, LMI said Wednesday. Gupt...
Bren-Tronics, Inventus Power, Navitas Systems‘ government solutions group and Ultralife Corp. have secured spots on a potential nine-year, $1.25 billion contract for a lightweight wearable battery being developed under the U.S. Army’s Tactical Power Generation Program. The Department of Defense said Wednesday contractors will compete for...
Noble Supply and Logistics and PAE-IMK International have won separate indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $937.5 million combined to help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain, repair and operate U.S. military facilities within the Pacific region. DLA awarded $562.5 million to Noble for Zone 1 services and $375 million to PAE-IM...
Antech Systems has won a potential $91.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy for software engineering, development and integration, maintenance and material management and technical support services. The company will also support the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and other government agencies with the creation of logistics packages to support operationa...
Noblis has won a potential $263.3 million contract to support a Defense Threat Reduction Agency program aimed at countering weapons of mass destruction through coordination with U.S. partner nations. The nonprofit company will advise and assist DTRA on Cooperative Threat Reduction Program areas, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. DTRA is obli...
