GovConWire's Government Contracting News 4/29/2021

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Contract Awards

IBM Awarded $850M Navy ERP Technical Support Task Order; Steve LaFleche Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a potential $850 million task order from the U.S. Navy to provide technical support for the service’s enterprise resource planning system, CHIPS reported Monday. The Navy ERP Technical Support Services task order awarded under the SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract supports upgrades to the Navy ERP financial system that oversees more than

News

NCI President, CEO Paul Dillahay Receives Third Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI Information Systems, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award on Tuesday during a recent visit to NCI by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. “Paul Dillahay is a heads up CEO that has transformed NCI into a robust enterprise-wide IT solutions provider, while

Executive Moves

Jennifer Chronis Elevated to Public Sector SVP Role at Verizon

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has promoted Jennifer Chronis, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient with over 25 years of experience in digital transformation, to the role of senior vice president of its public sector business from her most recent post at the company as VP of federal. The company said Wednesday Chronis will now be responsible for

News

2021 Wash100 Voting Results: USAF CIO Lauren Knausenberger Leaps Back into First Place; Hurry to Cast Your Votes By Friday

The 2021 Wash100 Vote Standings deadline is coming THIS FRIDAY. You still have time to submit your votes for the most significant GovCon and federal executives of consequence to our sector, but you have to hurry and cast your votes by midnight on Friday, April 30th. Cast your TEN votes on Wash100.com before midnight THIS

Financial Report

Boeing’s Defense & Space Business Revenue Up 19% in FY 2021 Q1; David Calhoun Quoted

Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business earned $7.2 billion in revenue for the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year, a 19 percent increase from the same period a year ago. The segment accounted for almost half of the total $15.2 billion company revenue for the quarter and reported a 5.6 percent increase

Contract Awards

Noblis-Led Team Secures $99M DHS Contract for WMD Defense Advisory, Assistance Services

Noblis will advise and assist the Department of Homeland Security on projects to defend against weapons of mass destruction under a prime contract worth potentially $99 million over five years. The nonprofit company said Wednesday it will support the DHS’ Countering WMD Office across programmatic, administrative, scientific, research and system engineering areas. Amr ElSawy, president

News

IST Task Force Offers Recommendations to Help Government, Industry Address Ransomware; Palo Alto Networks’ John Davis Quoted

An Institute for Security and Technology task force has released a report outlining a comprehensive framework of 48 recommendations that government and private sector leaders can implement to counter the threats posed by ransomware, GovCon Wire has learned. The framework developed by IST’s Ransomware Task Force is structured around four interlocking goals: deter ransomware attacks

Executive Moves

Will Roper Joins Board of Propulsion Tech Developer Ursa Major

Rocket propulsion developer Ursa Major has named Will Roper, former assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force, to the company’s board of directors. He joins the venture-backed startup company as he aims to help the industry bridge an innovation gap between commercial and national security missions, Ursa Major said Wednesday.

Contract Awards

Federal Judge Declines to Dismiss Amazon’s JEDI Cloud Lawsuit

A judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims turned down motions by the Department of Defense and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to dismiss Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) lawsuit challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s decision means that litigation over the JEDI

Executive Moves

Army Vet Michael Rutkowski Joins B3 Group as Strategic Initiatives Director

Michael Rutkowski, a 29-year U.S. Army veteran and a former executive at customer management technology provider MCI, has joined B3 Group as director of strategic initiatives. He will be responsible for growing B3’s business relationships in the federal sector and its product modernization efforts, the company said Wednesday. The retired colonel most recently served as

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 4/29/2021

IBM Awarded $850M Navy ERP Technical Support Task Order; Steve LaFleche Comments

NCI President, CEO Paul Dillahay Receives Third Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Jennifer Chronis Elevated to Public Sector SVP Role at Verizon

2021 Wash100 Voting Results: USAF CIO Lauren Knausenberger Leaps Back into First Place; Hurry to Cast Your Votes By Friday

Boeing’s Defense & Space Business Revenue Up 19% in FY 2021 Q1; David Calhoun Quoted

Noblis-Led Team Secures $99M DHS Contract for WMD Defense Advisory, Assistance Services

IST Task Force Offers Recommendations to Help Government, Industry Address Ransomware; Palo Alto Networks’ John Davis Quoted

Will Roper Joins Board of Propulsion Tech Developer Ursa Major

Federal Judge Declines to Dismiss Amazon’s JEDI Cloud Lawsuit

Army Vet Michael Rutkowski Joins B3 Group as Strategic Initiatives Director

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