Federal civilian and defense agencies collectively increased annual contract spending by $70 billion to $665 billion during fiscal year 2020, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. GAO found that agencies spent $35 billion to buy medical supplies and pharmaceutical products in FY 2020 as part of COVID-19 response efforts. The...
Blake Nelson, who led defense and civilian programs at service management company Pragmatics, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as vice president responsible for the management of cloud platforms and services in support of the company’s digital transformation business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. As SAIC...
RQ Construction will conduct design and construction work as part of a potential $225.6 million task order awarded under a U.S. Navy contract that provides for services in support of the Michelson Laboratory building at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California. The contractor will build an industrial shop and environmental and chemistry la...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential six-year, $950 million contract to provide infrastructure, supporting tools and services for the military branch’s threat radar systems and combat training ranges. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received 20 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
The federal government has struggled to complete the required security clearance processes for its massive workforce. The security clearance backlog has recently been reduced due to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) efforts to streamline and digitize the clearance process. During Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce F...
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is striving to increase security clearance efficiency by developing the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) that will replace legacy background investigation information technology (IT) systems. The NBIS is a part of the new Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework, designed to co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has promoted 19-year company veteran Kevin “Red” Smith to succeed Orlando “OJ” Sanchez as vice president of its F-22 program. Smith will oversee efforts to develop, produce and maintain systems for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 aircraft fleet in his position, Lockheed said Tuesday. Prior to this appointment, he ...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, reported on Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaking about the Department of Defense’s move to create a Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve to facilitate joint warfighting concept development competition across service branches. McAleese’s new rep...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced key appointments as the technology company moves to establish two business units and restructure its data platform group into two groups – datacenter and artificial intelligence and network and edge. Greg Lavender, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at VMware (NYSE: VMW)...
This past Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 CMMC Forum to provide the government contracting (GovCon) and federal sector’s members his overview and vision of the CMMC Rollout as well as the top priorities for the board and how industry feedback will help to improve the vision behind how the organization develops for the...
