NASA has awarded Austin-based technology company ICON a $57.2 million contract to fund the development of systems intended to build lunar surface infrastructure. ICON will further develop its Olympus construction platform under phase three of NASA’s dual-use Small Business Innovation Research contract with the U.S. Air Force, the space agency ...
Brian Edwards, former principal of the federal business at Capgemini, has been appointed executive director of growth at Herndon, Virginia-based cybersecurity and management consulting company Avint. The two-decade technology sector will lead capture and business development functions as Avint is aiming to help government clients modernize their cyb...
ManTech has secured a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to maintain the reliability of combat systems for training and live operations. The five-year award, won through a recompete, covers configuration management, researc...
Dan Klein, a corporate development executive, has assumed the position of vice president of public sector program management at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), GovCon Wire has learned. He reports to Zain Ahmed, senior VP of Lumen’s public sector, through the company’s office in Herndon, Virginia. “Dan is a results-driven software and services...
Client Solution Architects has received a potential three-year award to help the Department of the Navy manage and sustain an information technology system that supports active-duty personnel budget execution. The Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center has tasked CSA to continue IT services for the Military Personnel, Navy Appro...
Nick Heudecker, senior director of market strategy at Cribl, said the 2021 cybersecurity executive order has pushed federal agencies to take a closer look at zero trust, endpoint detection and response and supply chain security and implement a layered security architecture. Heudecker wrote that the EO has resulted in the development of the Office of...
Jon Rucker, formerly a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed president and CEO of Ultra‘s intelligence and communications business unit. He will take over from Dan Verwiel, who has served as acting CEO of Ultra Intelligence & Communications since September and will return t...
The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its federal market organization with the appointment of Terry Halvorsen and Mark Johnson as vice president of federal client development and VP of federal technology sales, respectively. Both executives will work to support IBM’s vision to facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud across the f...
Rich Aves, executive vice president of business development for the defense and intelligence sector at Parsons, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He talked about how can artificial intelligence be used to address some of the biggest challenges in defense and intelligence sectors; and Parsons’ recent growt...
