Randy Phillips, head of corporate development at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the company is looking at several acquisition targets and he believes mergers and acquisitions won’t slow down for GovCon firms, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “We’re all still looking for growth. We all want to focus on organic growth,” Phillips s...
This week, Jose Arrieta was confirmed as the chief information officer for the Department of Health and Human Services. Arrieta confirmed his appointment on Thursday during the Association for Federal Information Resources Management’s Leadership Awards event. In Virginia news, it was also revealed that President Trump intends to nominate Ken ...
Pivotal Software has been awarded a one-year, $121.3M other transaction agreement to support the Kessel Run software development team at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Detachment 12. The company will provide prototyping approaches, software and services across the Air Force Air Operations Center, the Department of Defense said Thur...
Brad Mascho, chief AI officer of NCI Information Systems, will be featured as a moderator during Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Forum on June 13th. At the event, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss “Starting Your AI Journey” and the challenges that come with that process. You can...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 30, 2019 ” Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, said changes to organizational culture, budgeting strategy and technology will help the federal government mitigate cybersecurity incidents similar to the Office of Personnel Management data breach in 2015, ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. Gardner wrote in an ...
The public sector subsidiary of NTT Data Services received a potential five-year, $218M contract to provide operational and digital infrastructure support to the U.S. Agency for International Development. The company said Wednesday it will use technology platforms to help increase overall efficiency and manage day-to-day operations at the agency und...
Jon Brooks, former vice president of mergers and acquisitions and deputy general counsel at Engility, has been named chief legal officer and senior VP of corporate development at Dovel Technologies. He will be responsible for driving Dovel’s growth efforts through M&A activity and overseeing compliance, procurement, contracts and legal fun...
SRC has secured a five-year, $100M contract to help the Environmental Protection Agency assess new and existing chemical hazards. The nonprofit research and development company said Wednesday it will continue working with the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics in efforts to evaluate chemical-based environmental and health hazards as well ...
ECS Federal won a potential six-year, $276M task order to help the Department of Homeland Security update a dashboard for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday. The report said ECS beat out two contractors for the order DHS competed through the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 governmentwi...
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC™s federal sector, has said the U.S. Air Force™s information technology modernization effort within its air and space operations centers presents three factors government agencies should consider as they seek to update their IT infrastructure and one is to “identify small prog...
