TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2016 ” Grant Thornton has hired Dianne Guensberg, formerly assistant director of the financial management and assurance team at the Government Accountability Office, as managing director of its public sector assurance practice, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday Gu...
The Government Accountability Office has denied the Boeing (NYSE: BA)-Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team’s protest of the U.S. Air Force‘s award of the highly-classified Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) in a ruling that could give way for engineering and development work to start. Boeing and Lockheed hold a...
Government shutdown. The phrase immediately raises essential questions for federal employees: Am I required to work? Will I get paid? If so, when? GovCon Wire is here to help. The distinction of which federal employees are required to work during a shutdown, and when they’ll get paid, comes down to whether their work is classified as...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a fundamental shift in how the Department of Defense approaches supply chain security. Once the 48 CFR rule of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement is amended to add CMMC requirements to DOD contracts, contractors across ...
Rare earth elements are some of the most indispensable materials in modern technology. These 17 elements from the periodic table, such as gadolinium, praseodymium and lanthanum, play critical roles in national security weapon systems while spanning many sectors of the global economy, including IT, transportation and telecommunications. Because ...
Trace Systems has received a $352 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide advanced, mission-critical communication technologies. Project Manager Tactical Network VSAT IV Contract Scope The tactical communications and integrated satellite infrastructure services provider said Tuesday the Project Manager Tactical Network, or PM TN, Very Sm...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded RTX (NYSE: RTX) company Raytheon an approximately $1.05 billion sole source contract to upgrade the sensors on the F-22 Raptor fighter jets. The Department of Defense said Friday the fixed-price-incentive, undefinitized contract provides for Group B hardware, spares and support equipment. Work on the contract will be p...
The Government Accountability Office is responsible for yearly financial sweeps of all federal agencies. In July 2023, GAO appeared in front of Congress to attest that the Department of Defense needs to put processes in place to receive better results in these annual audits. As of now, the DOD is the only major federal agency...
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has extended for another six months the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 contract as the agency works to take corrective action following protests to a recompete of its procurement vehicle for IT products and services. “In the meantime, the...
The Defense Health Agency has upheld its decision to select TriWest Health Alliance as the new managed care services provider in the western U.S. region of the U.S. military’s Tricare program. DHA on Thursday asserted that TriWest won the $65.1 billion T-5 MCS contract, after the agency reviewed and dismissed a bid protest Health Net...
