The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 13 companies positions on a potential three-year, $1.54 billion contract to provide agile design and development services for DHS. DHS awarded the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland contract vehicle as an agency-wide, small business set-aside program, the agency said in a FedBizOpps notice po...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a potential 10-year, $149 million contract to provide new human resource and time and management systems for General Services Administration personnel and external customers. The company will develop self-service HR and T&A systems that GSA customers will be able to access with mobile platforms a...
Alion Science and Technology has appointed G. Maliek Ferebee, former corporate vice president of human resources at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), as chief HR officer of the McLean, Virginia-based government engineering and technology services contractor. He will oversee Alion Science’s efforts to grow its technical and operational wor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 29, 2016 ” The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded Deloitte a $63 million contract for human resources management services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Deloitte will work to help the agency’s human development directorate adopt a new approach to oversee its recruitment, retirement and other progra...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has agreed to buy Laurel, Maryland-based digital services contractor Aquilent for approximately $250 million in a push to grow technology offerings, talent pipeline and citizen-focused digital services. Booz Allen said Tuesday the deal aims further the McLean, Virginia-based company’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2016 ” Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) Integrated Defense Systems subsidiary and the University of Massachusetts’ Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center have received a $1.9 million NextFlex grant to support the development of flexible electronic manufacturing, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Lowell Sun reported Tue...
November 21 – November 23, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Interest rates are all but certain to go up in December and one large defense contractor has seemingly gotten ahead of the game to make one more big buy before the Federal Reserve moves....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and TopCoder have partnered to host an on-site and online crowdsourcing hackathon in an effort to highlight the importance of crowdsourced initiatives within the federal sector, GovCon Executive said Tuesday. Participants of the 2016 TopCoder Open took p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 ” Deloitte plans to expand its Orlando technology delivery center and provide new career opportunities for software development, system analysis and information technology professionals over the next four-year period, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Orlando Economic Development Commission reported T...
Canada plans to buy 18 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft from the U.S. government on a temporary basis for an undisclosed amount in an effort to support the country™s existing fleet of CF-18 fighter jets, National Post reported Tuesday. David Pugliese writes Canada™s liberal government announced th...
