The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 58 companies and institutions spots on a potential 10-year, $25B contract vehicle to support data-driven health care quality improvement efforts across various settings and programs. CMS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday each contractor has a minimum guaranteed award amount of $1K...
Douglas Wiltsie, former director of the U.S. Army’s rapid capabilities office, has been named vice president of operations at Science Applications International Corp.™s (NYSE: SAIC) defense systems customer group. He will be responsible for executing programs, supporting business development efforts and managing key customer relation...
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has acquired Waterloo, Canada-based unmanned aerial systems developer Aeryon Labs for approximately $200M in a move to expand UAS offerings for military customers. Aeryon will operate under the unmanned systems and integrated solutions division of FLIR™s government and defense business, the Wilsonville, Ore...
Nonprofit company SRC has secured a potential two-year, $108.2M contract to develop a vehicle integrated defeat system for the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the project and obligated $53M in fiscal 2019 research, development, test, evaluation, operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Department of De...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 28, 2018 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received recognition for its programs to support the female workforce as well as its transparency in corporate gender reporting, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 17. The company said Jan. 16 Bloomberg’s 2019 Gender-Equality Index gave “best in class” rankings fo...
Dewberry has promoted a dozen staff members within the company’s office in Fairfax, Va., in a series of executive moves that coincides with an expansion of its engineering, architectural and consulting service lines within the D.C. metropolitan region. Phil Thiel took the role of executive vice president with responsibility over Dewberry’...
MullenLowe has secured a potential six-year, $211.9M contract to provide full-service integrated marketing and advertising services to the Department of Defense’s Office of People Analytics. The Defense Human Resources Activity announced the Joint Advertising, Market Research and Studies contract award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday...
John Hynes, a more than 28-year GovCon industry veteran, has joined Ashburn, Va.-based technology services contractor Applied Insight as CEO. He succeeds Gavin Long, who will chair the AI board, the company said Thursday. AI is one of the two companies that investment firm The Acacia Group formed in 2018 following its acquisition of I...
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has made a series of leadership promotions within its strategic government business. Barbara Farnham, formerly senior director of federal programs, has been promoted to senior director and general manager for special programs at CenturyLink, the company said Wednesday. Farnham, who joined CenturyLink in 2001, will oversee sal...
Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), told Breaking Defense in an interview published Wednesday that the merger with Engility allowed SAIC to double its intelligence business. He said the transaction enabled SAIC to broaden its reach to a wider range of agencies within the intelligence community, including the CI...
