Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will provide software development, engineering and data science support for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center under a potential five-year, $241 million basic ordering agreement. Maxar said Wednesday it secured a spot on the BOA, which also covers architecture, standards and analysis se...
Byron Bright, president of the government solutions business at KBR, recently received his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership in driving KBR’s military technology engineering, development, support and sustainment efforts in areas such as space, cyber and data anal...
Barry Duplantis, vice president and genera manager of North America Public Sector business at Mattermost, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding Mattermost’s key markets of interest and how the company’s offerings are relevant to the public sector. In addition, Duplantis discussed the federal government’s communication tools consideration...
DC Capital Partners Management has made an investment in Valkyrie Enterprises and will combine the latter with the private equity firm’s portfolio company Hill Technical Solutions. Valkyrie has over 700 engineers, industry specialists and technical professionals who provide support to diplomatic and security missions at the Department of Defen...
Sigma Defense has acquired Sub U Systems for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings intended for tactical networking and communications. The combined company plans to offer a common hardware platform with software applications that support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance relay, analytics, artificial intelligence and edge com...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded 56 positions on a potential 10-year, $10 billion contract vehicle for services supporting military medical research and development programs. DHA received a total of 126 proposals from 61 offerors for the OMNIBUS IV multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via SAM.gov, the Department of D...
Srini Iyer, senior vice president and chief technology officer at ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), said the Herndon, Virginia-based technology services contractor is supporting government agencies’ digital transformation efforts by delivering cloud computing platforms through its partnership with Google Cloud. Iyer wrote about how ManTech hel...
Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding how his team and the rest of the company’s workforce have driven success in such a competitive sector as well as how Serco is driving value for its workforce and its customers. In addition, the two-time Wash100 Award winner also discussed Serco’s most si...
A Mitre-operated research and development organization and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have launched a collaborative project with other industry partners in an effort to provide cybersecurity professionals with an open methodology for prioritizing Mitre ATT&CK techniques based on organizational needs. The initiative identified prevalence, choke poi...
Kevin Bearden, a more than 25-year government market veteran, has joined Cherokee Federal as vice president of humanitarian solutions. In his new position, Bearden will spearhead the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based contractor’s work with various agencies across immigration, refugee and emergency response programs, the federal division of Chero...
