General Dynamics’ information technology business has booked four one-year task orders worth a combined $23.4 million to support the Environmental Protection Agency‘s IT infrastructure, systems and applications. Each order contains two one-year options and supports EPA’s ENERGY STAR program, which GDIT has supported over the past 17 years, the company said Tuesday. The agency launched the program […] More

A coalition of technology companies has begun efforts to counter the Defense Department’s plan to pursue a single-award contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Sources told the publication the coalition includes Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, SAP’s U.S. arm and General Dynamics’ CSRA unit. […] More

Mark Frantz, co-founder of BlueDelta Capital Partners, and Joseph Dyer, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, have been named advisers to ASGN’s board of directors. Frantz and Dyer will share with the company’s board their knowledge and insights gained through their government contracting experience, ASGN said Tuesday. ASGN CEO Peter Dameris said the firm will […] More

Donald Robinson, chief technology officer of General Dynamics‘ information technology unit, has said the company aims to secure Impact Level 6 authorization for the milCloud 2.0 platform by 2019 to help the Defense Department manage classified data, Nextgov reported Wednesday. MilCloud 2.0 is powered by CSRA, which General Dynamics bought for approximately $9.7 billion in […] More

General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $9 million sole-source contract to help the U.S. Air Force implement a cloud services environment. The Cloud Hosted Enterprise Services infrastructure is designed to provide the military branch access to Microsoft Office 365 services and additional services from Amazon Web Services, Oracle and SAP, General Dynamics said Tuesday. GDIT will work to […] More

TYSONS CORNER, Va., May 2, 2018 — Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft, has received the 2018 GCW Readers’ Choice Award for GovCon Executives after garnering the highest number of votes among his category in Executive Mosaic‘s 2018 Wash100 list, GovConWire reported Wednesday. Abod, who is a four-time Wash100 inductee, earned 832 out of the 24,131 total votes […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has created an advisory committee to offer recommendations and guidance on events, policies and other matters related to INSA and its charitable organization. INSA said Tuesday the panel consists of 26 members who have held senior-level roles within the government or industry and previously served on former INSA advisory […] More

NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More

Elizabeth Ahrens, a 17-year health information technology professional, has been promoted to a new director position at Reston, Virginia-based management and technology services provider tiag to oversee health IT initiatives for federal government and commercial clients. She will direct mission-critical health IT programs and related projects, implement the firm’s strategic goals and manage work with the […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has posted a draft request for proposals on a follow-on contract for systems integration services to NOAA’s Research and Development High Performance Computing and Communications infrastructure. NOAA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it aims to issue a final RFP in October and hold an Industry Day in Silver Spring, Maryland in […] More

KippsDeSanto has unveiled its list of what it calls the most notable merger and acquisition deals in the aerospace, defense and government technology sectors for the quarter ending June 30. Bob Kipps, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, is co-founder and managing director of KippsDeSanto. The investment bank said its ranking of the M&A transactions […] More

CSRA has awarded Woolpert a subcontract to provide a geographic information system, remote sensing data and associated consulting services to the Environmental Protection Agency. Woolpert will perform GIS analysis, metadata generation, application development, help desk support and geospatial information collection services, the company said Thursday. CSRA’s SRA International subsidiary landed a potential five-year, $266 million contract in […] More