The National Institutes of Health has awarded five positions on a potential five-year, $148M contract to help the National Cancer Institute manage and analyze biomedical information, according to a SAM notice posted Tuesday....
Gerry Fasano, president of Leidos’ defense group, was presented his 2020 Wash100 Award for the first time in his long career in the government contracting (GovCon) sector. Fasano received his first Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, on Thursday. Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the...
Veritas Capital has scheduled Oct. 1 as the date the private equity firm expects to complete its pending $5B cash acquisition of the U.S. state and local health and human services unit from DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC)....
William Phillips, vice president for Army and Special Operations Forces field marketing at Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has been appointed to serve on Day & Zimmermann's board of advisers. The 38-year Army veteran brings to the D&Z advisory board his experience in areas such as defense contracting, secur...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $298M contract to help the U.S. Space Force develop hardware and software for a new military satellite communications system. The company will build a payload to support the Space and Missile Systems Center's Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program, the Department of Defense said W...
The Department of Defense reaffirmed its decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) in early September but a joint status report issued by the Court of Federal Claims Tuesday reveals several scenarios that could extend the JEDI contract protest into 2021, the Washington Bus...
Boeing (NYSE: BA), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Google, ColdQuanta, QC Ware and Zapata Computing signed participation agreements to join the steering committee of a consortium tasked with advancing research in quantum information science and identifying standards, technology and workforce needs to support the emerging QIS-based industry....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $51.2M contract from the U.S. Space Force to build, test and integrate a missile warning technology into the government's planned common ground command-and-control infrastructure for multiple satellite missions. The company said Wednesday it will develop mission software to support the transition of Geo...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) has appointed Andrew Sommers, formerly a senior policy adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services, to oversee a newly formed business unit that will focus on supporting public health initiatives in the government sector....
T-Rex Solutions has acquired information technology engineering services firm Zot for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its presence in the intelligence community and broaden its IT management service offerings to national security agencies....
