ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Rebellion Defense has received a contract from the U.S. Navy Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems X unit to equip sailors with its proprietary software designed to better recognize and track targets during missions.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies spots on a potential 10-year, $2.67 billion recompete contract to provide wireless mobility devices and related services for military personnel and federal civilian employees stationed within the country and U.S. territories.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Stored energy technologies provider EnerSys has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire for $208 million Bren-Tronics, a manufacturer of portable power products for defense customers. EnerSys said Thursday it expects to close the all-cash transaction by the second quarter of 2024. Following the acquisition, Bren-Tronics will be integrated into EnerSys’ Specialty business.
USFCR
MAY 6, 2024
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Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
A group of 13 federal judges told Columbia University's president Monday they won't hire students who attend the university or its law school as clerks, calling it an "incubator of bigotry" for its handling of student protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a copy of their letter that U.S. District Judge Alan Albright shared with Law360.
GovLoop
MAY 6, 2024
With the rise of remote work and the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) generating large volumes of data in the field, agencies want to provide staff the ability to analyze and use that data in the field as well. This is the concept of edge computing. But there’s a catch: They also need to secure that data. “This is where zero-trust architecture (ZTA) comes into play,” said Michael Epley, Chief Architect and Security Strategist with Red Hat.
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Open Contracting Partnership
MAY 6, 2024
Thanks to a small grant from Schmidt Futures , we had the opportunity to experiment with applying artificial intelligence technologies to green public procurement. With so many actors in our field talking about AI more generally, this blog post is meant as a gentle introduction to getting started on applying AI in practice. The goal is to increase the understanding of AI in public procurement – by discussing the key decisions we had to make about our approach.
FedScoop
MAY 6, 2024
The Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is looking to advance cloud capabilities through its Next Generation Data Center, a follow-on contract for the office’s Next Generation Cloud. The agency said Friday in a request for information that it is conducting market research to identify a service provider to modernize and “continuously improve” the existing cloud environment provided by Amazon Web Services.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Leidos has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Heather Scheuerman as vice president of strategic sourcing and Sashi Ravipati as VP of capability integration. Prior to her appointment, Scheuerman served as director of sourcing at the Reston, Virginia-headquartered information technology and engineering services company for five years, according to her LinkedIn profile.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
Accenture Federal Services won the U.S. Army’s Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration contract with a potential value of $127 million. Under the contract, which includes a 1-year base ordering period with two optional years, Accenture Federal Services will use its cloud migration and modernization approach to perform large-scale application assessments, migrations and modernizations to the [.
GovTribe
MAY 6, 2024
GovTribe studied data from over 260,000 unique users and millions of interactions to find the top 20 opportunities in the federal market heading into May 2024. Let’s start by diving into the top three.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards were announced March 28, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person May 10. Next is Marion Ticknor, chief people officer at DMI, and finalist in the Private and Public Chief Human Resources Officer category. Here, she shares key achievements, focus areas [.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems has released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $267 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop and sustain a cloud-based talent acquisition platform.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether students at Colorado State University campuses can still pursue a class action seeking fee refunds after a state appeals court found the public university system was justified in closing campuses because of the coronavirus pandemic.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business (NYSE: LMT) will assess the potential of integrating enabling technologies into a prototype weapon system as part of a U.S. Army award with a $170.2 million ceiling value. Work under the other transaction authority agreement will occur in Grand Prairie, Texas, and several locations through Feb.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
GEO Group Inc. has told a Washington state federal judge that a state law allowing surprise inspections at private immigration detention centers so clearly targets its operations that the court should permanently bar the law now, instead of letting its defense continue.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded 90 prototype other transaction contracts to commercial companies and transitioned 10 commercial technology platforms to Department of Defense users in fiscal year 2023, bringing DIU’s cumulative transition rate to 51 percent.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards were announced March 28, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person May 10. Next is Prabu Natarajan, chief financial officer at SAIC, and finalist in the Public Company Chief Financial Officer category. Here, he shares key achievements, focus areas going forward, [.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
A Court of Federal Claims judge on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the Army Corps of Engineers wrongly required a building construction contractor to redo its work, ruling the suit was not barred by a related previous case.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards were announced March 28, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person May 10. Next is Kelly Loeffler, executive vice president and chief growth officer at Acentra Health, and finalist in the Private and Public Chief Growth Officer (annual revenue greater than [.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
The U.S. Navy has urged the Court of Federal Claims to toss a $150 million suit alleging the Navy deliberately thwarted a shipbuilder's efforts to build a fleet of landing craft, saying the company failed to follow the proper procedure before suing.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards were announced March 28, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person May 10. Next is Jo Ann Bjornson, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at V2X, and finalist in the Public & Private Company Chief Human Resources Officer category. [.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
Clifford Chance continued its recent aggressive expansion by growing its Houston and New York offices with two attorneys specializing in energy, taxation and mergers & acquisitions, bringing the firm's lateral hires up to 10 attorneys in 2024.
WashngtonExec
MAY 6, 2024
Government agencies need to advance their missions in the face of competing pressures. “There are increasing demands to modernize the technology infrastructure,” even as budgets are decreasing, said Rebecca Miller, GovCIO health and civilian sector president. “Different agencies have different charters and missions, but they’re all trying to do more with less.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
Most of the recently moved lawsuits alleging violations of a New Jersey judicial privacy law should be moved back to state court since the plaintiffs and defendants reside in the Garden State, the data privacy company behind the first-of-their-kind cases has told a New Jersey federal judge.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Epiq Solutions will integrate DeepSig‘s artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with its software-defined radios under a partnership with the AI-native wireless communications tech provider as part of efforts to improve signal intelligence, direction finding and communications.
Government Contracts
MAY 6, 2024
An AIG unit agreed to go to arbitration with a Michigan county's water resources agency and sewage disposal system over their claims they incurred more than $20 million in damages due to a design contractor's faulty work on a tunnel project.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Space Systems Command has begun seeking proposals for the development and production of space vehicles for the U.S. Space Force’s Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications constellation.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
Valerie Cawthron, formerly director of employee relations at IPT Associates, has been promoted to vice president of human resources at the Massachusetts-based provider of information technology and professional services.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index grew by 0.88% last week, extending an upward trend that has now been present for three consecutive weeks. With this rise, the average was brought to $4,923.43. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that collects real-time stock market data from 30 of the GovCon industry’s most notable companies.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $460.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency for continued system engineering and integration of a ballistic missile defense system for Guam.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
What is a teaming agreement? This question stirs up conversation about the crucial aspect of business and contracting: collaboration. A teaming agreement is a collaborative strategy wherein a smaller company partners with a larger business to jointly pursue contracting opportunities.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index started May with a modest gain and stayed positive in the subsequent two sessions. On Friday, the index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, advanced 0.58% to $4,923.43 for a 0.89% week-on-week gain. Major US stock indexes ended strong on weaker jobs data, leading to weekly gains of 1.
Kluwer Arbitration
MAY 6, 2024
The Delhi Arbitration Week (“DAW”) 2024 that took place from 6 to 10 March 2024 featured two panel discussions that focused on emerging issues such as state owned entities (“SOEs”) and the role of technology in arbitration. The panel discussions came into play at a time when there have been significant developments and challenges globally and in India regarding SOEs and technology (discussed here and here respectively) in international arbitration.
GovCon Wire
MAY 6, 2024
Mark Bagley, a more than two-decade cybersecurity industry executive, has joined Caveonix, a Falls Church, Virginia-based hybrid cloud security platforms provider, as chief product officer. He will oversee development strategy and innovation efforts to advance Caveonix’s growth initiatives, the company said Friday.
ExecutiveBiz
MAY 6, 2024
Connie Flohr, formerly manager of the Idaho Cleanup Project, has been appointed senior vice president at Navarro Research & Engineering. She will be responsible for new strategic partnerships and targeted growth opportunities for federal programs within the Department of Energy, NASA and the Department of Defense, the company said Friday.
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