Biniam Gebre, senior managing director at Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and head of management consulting for its federal business arm, will be nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget. The White House said Wednesday Gebre has more than two decades...
Saab will develop and produce system replacements for a ship-based continuous wave target illuminator under a potential $104.8 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed fee and cost-only contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract for the MK 9 Tracker Illuminator System replacements has a $32.2 million base amount and a two-year initial performance pe...
IntelliBridge, a McLean, Virginia-based portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has purchased U.Group to expand its technology portfolio and client base across federal civilian, defense and homeland security agencies. U.Group is a digital transformation company founded in 2010 and provides Agile development, consulting support, data science, Dev...
U.S. Space Command leaders have emphasized the importance of intelligence data, commercial technology and workforce diversity in its mission to help other combatant commands protect the country’s space assets from adversarial threats. Sean Kirkpatrick, deputy director of intelligence at SPACECOM, said the U.S. must leverage space technology be...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed protests against NASA’s award of a potential $2.89 billion contract to SpaceX to further develop a human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday GAO’s decision will enable the space agency and SpaceX to...
Marshall Smith, former deputy associate administrator for systems engineering and integration within a NASA directorate, has joined Voyager Space Holdings subsidiary Nanoracks to serve as senior vice president of commercial space stations. Voyager said Monday Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ commercial space services from a new Huntsville, Alabam...
Anduril Industries has named former senior government and national security officials David Goldfein, Kevin McAleenan, Katharina McFarland, Constantine Saab and Scott Swift to the newly formed advisory board to help inform the defense technology company’s strategy and build up relationships with government partners. The company said Tuesday the me...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), Information Management Services and Westat have secured positions on a five-year, $149.9 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to provide computer-related support services to the government’s principal cancer research organization. The agency named the three awardees for the Biomedical Computing, Analytic ...
Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, was presented a 2021 Wash100 Award for his thought leadership and being a driving force for defense solutions that support warfighters’ competitive edge in digital warfare. In addition, Wenzel has also been influential in growing the company’s revenue through securing val...
The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Philadelphia Division has awarded seven small businesses positions on a six-year, $249.7 million contract to engineer shipboard and shore-based systems. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide cybersecurity engineering, integrated logistics and quality assurance services to the U.S. Navy’s s...
