Ernst & Young has received a potential five-year, $41.8M contract from the General Services Administration to help verify entities that want to do business with the federal government.

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Ernst & Young and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered into a strategic alliance to bring the lab’s behavioral cybersecurity tools to the commercial marketplace amid a growing sophistication of attacks. “Defensive cybersecurity is an area that requires strong public-private partnerships to shift the balance,” Duncan McBranch, chief technology officer at LANL, said Tuesday. EY will exclusively offer technologies […] More

Rene LaVigne is the president and CEO of Iron Bow Technologies, a Chantilly, Va.-based information technology contractor that works with customers in the public and private sectors. Before joining Iron Bow, formerly known as Apptis Technology Solutions, he served as president of the computing system division at Northrop Grumman and held leadership positions at Federal Data Corp. until that company’s acquisition […] More

Bechtel has received Victory Media‘s military friendly employer designation to recognize the company’s hiring and training programs for military personnel and veterans. Victory Media gives the designation to companies through a survey that is evaluated by Ernst & Young LLP, Bechtel said Tuesday. “Service members and their families often go to extraordinary lengths, making sacrifices many of us do not realize, to serve […] More

Ernst and Young, has partnered with Qualtrics and SAP to help government entities address the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Donald Thomas, formerly a vice president for management consulting at Dell Services, has joined Washington, D.C.-based Ad Hoc as VP to lead its federal business. He will help Ad Hoc deliver consumer technology to its federal customers, the digital services company said Friday in a LinkedIn post. Thomas brings experience in management consulting and in […] More

Michelle McCarthy, former corporate controller at Analog Devices, has joined defense electronics manufacturer Mercury Systems as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller. Mercury Systems said Tuesday McCarthy will report to Chief Financial Officer Michael Ruppert and oversee the company’s financial reporting, accounting and tax operations. The certified public accountant previously served as corporate financial reporting manager at J. Jill and manager […] More

James Mackie, former director of the Treasury Department‘s Office of Tax Analysis, has joined Ernst and Young as co-director of the company’s quantitative economics and statistics group. The more than 30-year Treasury veteran will lead the Washington, D.C.-based QUEST group with  Robert Carroll, said Thursday. In his previous role, Mackie led OTA’s efforts to analyze and produce reports on […] More

“The goal of the government contracting world should be to provide goods and services to the federal government in the most convenient, cheapest, effective manner…That is a noble goal…” ExecutiveBiz: Please tell us about your background and previous experience and how it prepared you for your current position with Merlin. Jones Tallent: I’ve been fortunate […] More

The government and public sector practice of Ernst & Young’s U.S. arm has established a new center to help U.S. federal, local and state government agencies advance their modernization efforts by exploring ways to better use technology and data in addressing complex challenges. The EY Center for Government Modernization will help public sector leaders in […] More

AmeriCorps has tapped Ernst & Young‘s government and public sector practice to upgrade its grants application and management system under a new five-year, $8.9 million contract. EY will team up with RedSky to implement its Grants Accelerator platform as a replacement for AmeriCorps’ eGrants system, the professional services provider said Monday. EYGA works to enable […] More

Vectrus has completed its all-stock merger with Vertex and formed V2X, a more diversified company that will provide defense, civilian, national security and international customers with mission support offerings. Chuck Prow “Through this transformative combination, we created a company with the scale and ability to compete for large integrated business opportunities by providing full life-cycle […] More