Alexis Bonnell, former emerging technology evangelist at Google‘s public sector business, has been named the inaugural chief information officer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and director of AFRL’s new digital capabilities directorate. She will oversee the development of the lab’s digital capabilities and information technol...

Eight companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $800 million contract to provide support services for the U.S. Agency for International Development to help improve development outcomes in countries affected by conflict, fragility and violence. USAID announced the awardees on the Programming for Prevention and Peacebuilding indefinite-delive...

AECOM (NYSE: ACM) will continue to offer architecture and engineering services to the U.S. Agency for International Development through the company’s position on a multiple-award $800 million contract vehicle. The company said Wednesday it aims to help address USAID’s critical infrastructure requirements through the indefinite-delivery/indef...

WCC Global will provide the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives with geographic information systems, project management, communications support and other services under a five-year, $82 million contract. The management consulting firm said Tuesday it teamed up with Nickol Global Solutions and XL Associa...

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a $376 million task order to help the Department of Agriculture migrate a web-based supply chain management system to cloud infrastructure. The company said Wednesday it will implement the SAP S/4HANA enterprise resource planning technology and update business processing functions in the department’...

Salient CRGT has secured a five-year, $105 million contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development manage information technology portfolio, consolidate IT services, adopt cloud computing approaches, update networks and secure systems. The single-award USAID Strategic Programs contract covers support for the agency’s Office of th...

Christen Smith, former vice president of management advisory services at LMI, has taken a new role as VP of the nonprofit company's federal health and civilian market. Smith said in a LinkedIn post published Friday that she aims to continue LMI's efforts to help government customers manage health care delivery and federal work environments...

On Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its latest virtual event, Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment, featuring a keynote address from Michael Mestrovich for the U.S. Department of State. If you missed the event, you can still register to watch the full event in Potomac Officers Club’s Event Archive....

Washington, D.C.-based development consulting firm Chemonics International has purchased the goverment services unit of San Francisco-based utility and energy management software provider Nexant for an undisclosed sum....

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded nine companies spots on a potential seven-year, $500M contract to provide technical support to allow USAID’s energy initiatives to respond to post-conflict and post disaster recovery, regional security, economic growth and other agency priorities....