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....
Atlas Research has won a contract to help the Department of Veterans Affairs update and simplify its platform for processing disability compensation claims. Washington, D.C.-based Atlas said Thursday it partnered with Amida and Prometheus Federal Services to develop a system for VA personnel to collect evidentiary materials needed to process clai...
Anne Hughes, a more than 30-year health care industry veteran, has been named vice president of business development at Cognosante's civilian health unit, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. Cognosante is headquartered in Falls Church, Va., and offers technology and business process outsourcing services to government health organizations....
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for about $2.1B....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded BAE Systems a contract to integrate Block 4 modifications into the F-35 aircraft’s electronic warfare and countermeasures systems....
