Lisa Disbrow, who served as the 25th undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force from January 2015 to June 2017, has been appointed to serve on the audit and risk management committee of BlackBerry's (NYSE: BB) board of directors....
UES Inc. has won a potential eight-year, $90.3M contract to develop a technology for the U.S. Air Force identify molecular signatures of airmen performance....
An unmanned undersea vehicle General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) built to support the U.S. Navy’s mine countermeasure missions has received Milestone C approval from the program executive officer for unmanned and small combatants, Naval Sea Systems Command reported Monday....
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $74.1M U.S. Navy contract modification for pre-operational support work on the Next Generation Jammer-Mid Band, an electronic attack technology designed to jam signals and track multiple targets simultaneously....
Potomac Officers Club hosted its 2019 Security Vetting Process Modernization Update on August 14th. The forum brought together GovCon leaders from the public and private sector to discuss the initial implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-9 and how future plans will continue to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of vetting...
Five companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $18M contract to supply NASA with miniaturized satellite deployment systems. NASA said Saturday its Kennedy Space Center will place orders for CubeSat dispenser hardware, associated mass simulators and mission integration services through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contr...
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is seeking interested parties who can manage a consortium to support the service branch’s plans to recompete an other transaction agreement for space-related technology prototyping efforts....
FedPoint, a joint venture between TurningPoint and DSFederal, has won a task order to provide help desk support to contact centers administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rockville, Md.-based FedPoint said Monday it will help the CMS address technical support requests from call center customers regarding the Medicare...
This week, Capital One signed an agreement to acquire KippsDeSanto & Co., a leading investment banking firm focused on serving growth-oriented aerospace/defense, government services and technology companies. œJoining Capital One was a natural next step in the growth plan for us at KippsDeSanto, said Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and manag...
David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that there are four best practices federal information technology administrators should consider adopting to support their agencies’ IT modernization efforts and one is focusing on people and processes....
