GovConWire's Government Contracting News 1/31/2022

On Jan. 19, we announced the ninth edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic‘s annual list of the government contracting sector’s most significant contributors from both the public and private sectors. Alongside the 2022 Wash100 selections, Executive Mosaic offers our readership a platform to vote for their favorite GovCon leaders. The voting period kicked off

Executive Mosaic is proud to recognize Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the U.S. Air Force, as a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Wash100 Award, which annually honors a select group of preeminent leaders in the government contracting community for their impactful contributions across the federal landscape. This marks Knausenberger’s second consecutive Wash100 Award – the Air

Christopher Kastner, chief operating officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), has been selected by the company’s board of directors to succeed Mike Petters as president and CEO in a move slated to take effect March 1. Petters, a previous Wash100 Award recipient, will continue to represent HII throughout the year and serve as executive

The Defense Health Agency has awarded six companies positions on a six-year, $1.43 billion contract to bring technology modernization processes, tools and methods to the DHA’s program executive office for defense health care management systems. Contractors will aim to help PEO DHMS personnel adopt methodologies from industry under the multiple-award, firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department

Rich Wilkinson, director of product marketing for Unanet and a GovCon Expert, has published the second part of his latest feature with Executive Mosaic to shed a light on six sources of pressure that GovCon Expert Rich Wilkinson expects will shape the GovCon business and impact company strategy in the year ahead — and likely

Executive Mosaic has introduced Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director of the J6 office and chief information officer at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for leading the military’s journey towards Joint All Domain Command and Control concept implementation. This award marks his second consecutive selection to

Thursday’s Digital Currency and National Security Forum, hosted by the Potomac Officers Club, featured a mid-day keynote address from the Honorable Marshall Billingslea, former assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Department of the Treasury, on how blockchain fits into the broader context of historic human innovation, the national security concerns digital currencies raise and the implications the

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a five-year, $171 million contract to provide application and evaluation support for the U.S. Army’s biomedical research programs. The Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity received three bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Friday. USAMRAA, based out of

Private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management has acquired professional services company Savli Group for an undisclosed sum. Woodbine, Maryland-based Savli Group was founded in 1996 and provides ServiceNow software and information technology automation platforms to Intelligence Community, defense and other federal agencies as an Elite Partner, the companies said in a joint release published Friday.

The Potomac Officers Club on Thursday hosted its first Digital Currency and National Security Forum, which gathered the leading figures and voices in the blockchain, cryptocurrency and virtual asset movement to explore the underlying technology foundations, the national security concerns and the potential future impacts of digital currencies as the topic continues to take the global spotlight