GovConWire Top Stories 4/23/2021

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The U.S. Space Force has selected Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to design, develop and launch payloads meant to secure military satellite communications as part of the new phase of the Protected Tactical Satcom program, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The service expects the Northrop and Boeing payloads to launch in 2024 aboard a

Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, presented the sixth Wash100 Award to Jill Singer, vice president of Defense and National Security for AT&T’s public sector business and First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) program, during a visit to AT&T headquarters on Thursday. As a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, Singer was

Dentsu has tapped Larry Gillespie II, former advisory executive director for EY‘s digital customer and strategy offering, to serve as president and chairman of its Isobar Public Sector business and lead the brand’s growth and capability development efforts. Gillespie, who brings more than two decades of digital transformation experience, will help Dentsu’s public sector unit

With the prevailing and emerging cybersecurity threats to U.S. critical infrastructure, the public and private sectors work to fortify national security systems’ defense against malicious actors in the cyber domain. GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12 will feature Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, as keynote speaker. During

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured an $89.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and support services to help the U.S. Navy modernize and update the P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime patrol aircraft’s software and associated hardware capabilities. The company will analyze, design, integrate and test the systems and software of the aircraft as well as provide prototyping,

Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, chief information officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept requires an enterprise cloud to ensure accessibility and deliver the data processing capability to the tactical edge, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “Just because you’ve established the environment doesn’t mean you have the

Contract and program management software provider Unison has acquired Price Systems, which offers analytics technology designed to help public and private sector customers manage project costs. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and Dulles, Virginia-based Unison said Wednesday the combined entity aims to market software platforms for use by government contracting and

Brian Pickerall, formerly a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: LMT), has joined Changeis as a VP in charge of the management consulting and technology services firm’s strategic growth efforts. He brings to his Changeis his more than 25 years of industry experience that included work with government clients in the infrastructure domain, the

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $99 million multiple-award contract to seven small businesses for pavement design-bid-build projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s southwest area of responsibility. NAVFAC Southwest received 16 proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The Navy will obligate $3.1 million on this IDIQ and expects