Steve Harris, a more than two-decade Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) veteran, has been tapped by Ellucian to serve as chief revenue officer, responsible for driving the Reston, Virginia-based higher education technology company’s revenue generation initiatives and leading development of go-to-market plans. Ellucian said Thursday Harris will als...
Bill Marion, managing director at Accenture Federal Services, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Navy Forum on May 12th, 2021. The following panelists discussed driving data and platform success, featuring Bradley Goodrich, Jane Rathbun and Capt. Matt Farr of the U.S. Navy and George Batsakis ...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Defense Cybersecurity Forum on Wednesday, May 12th. If you missed the Defense Cybersecurity Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting GovCon Wire Event Archive. The Def...
Bren-Tronics, Inventus Power, Navitas Systems‘ government solutions group and Ultralife Corp. have secured spots on a potential nine-year, $1.25 billion contract for a lightweight wearable battery being developed under the U.S. Army’s Tactical Power Generation Program. The Department of Defense said Wednesday contractors will compete for...
Antech Systems has won a potential $91.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy for software engineering, development and integration, maintenance and material management and technical support services. The company will also support the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and other government agencies with the creation of logistics packages to support operationa...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect federal networks from cyber threats and improve U.S. cybersecurity in response to recent hacks involving SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline. The order will eliminate barriers to sharing of threat information between the government and the private sector, modernize federal...
ARServices has won a potential $145.5 million contract to advise the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s research and development directorate on policy, financial and programmatic matters. The Alexandria, Virginia-based company will provide advisory and assistance services to the agency in R&D areas such as chemical, biological, radiological...
The Cyber Bytes Foundation has partnered with Pavilion Data Systems to deploy data storage and transmission equipment for use by the nonprofit organization’s cybersecurity programs. Pavilion said Tuesday it will provide the HyperParallel Data Platform to the American Cyber League program, a consortium of companies at CBF’s Quantico Cyber...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has issued requests for prototype proposals for upper-stage resiliency improvements, next-generation rocket engine testing and orbital transfer and maneuver capabilities, SpaceRef reported Tuesday. SMC’s Launch Enterprise will support the space technology projects through other transaction ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2021 — The U.S. Navy used General Atomics-built MQ-9A Block 5 and MQ-9B SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft to demonstrate teaming between manned and unmanned military platforms at the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 exercise, ExecutiveBiz reported April 29. “We successfully demonstra...
