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Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has appointed former Department of Defense leaders David Norquist, Ellen Lord and Dana Deasy to the newly established strategic advisory board to provide guidance as SAIC advances innovation and growth efforts. “These leaders bring years of experience in both industry and the federal government...
Ben McNeal, a 30-year U.S. Navy veteran and former program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks, has been named director of Navy and Marine Corps strategy and sales at Red Hat. Nathan Jones, vice president of the federal business at Red Hat, announced in a LinkedIn post the addition of McNeal to the software company’s public...
This past Thursday, Potomac Officers Club (POC), the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum. Check out the Potomac Officers Club’s Event Page to view on-demand the Air Force Acquisition Forum if you mis...
Will Roper, former acquisition chief at the U.S. Air Force and three-time Wash100 winner, has been named CEO of Volansi, four months after he joined the cargo drone manufacturing company’s board of directors. He succeeds Volansi founder Hannan Parvizian, who has transitioned to new roles as chief technology officer and product architect, the c...
Potomac Officers Club, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum on Thursday, July 8th. The 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum presented notable and influential leaders discussing the importance of digital trans...
David Stagney, senior director at Pratt & Whitney, served as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum on July 8th. The following panelist discussed embracing digital transformation and agile development featuring Preston Dunlap of the Department of the Air and Space Forc...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to buy Alion Science and Technology from Veritas Capital for approximately $1.65 billion in cash as part of a push to expand its technical capabilities and portfolio of national security platforms. HII said Tuesday it expects the transaction to conclude in the second half of 2021 and help...
The Department of Defense decided to end the prolonged court battle over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program by dropping the JEDI cloud contract and announced plans to launch a new procurement effort to meet its cloud computing requirements. DOD said Tuesday the decision was due to a more mature cloud conversancy, industry advancemen...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a potential $4.79 billion contract vehicle for services related to research, development and sustainment of hardware and software capabilities to support the intelligence production requirements of the military branch, Department of Defense and intelligence community. The NOVASTAR indefinit...
“Technology innovation is the battlefield of today.” Amid the pandemic, the Department of Air Force indicated in its fiscal 2019/2020 Acquisition Biennial Report how it developed innovative strategies to carry on with its missions and integrate digital engineering into its operations. From executing the pioneer end-to-end demonstration of the Ad...
