An Engility subsidiary has won a potential $41 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide advisory and assistance services to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s engineering directorate. TASC will assemble an independent readiness review team to help the directorate examine related space organizations that offer technical analysis and risk assessment services for ground, launch and space systems, the […] More

Bill Varner, president of the mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group at ManTech International, received an alumni award from Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at an awards banquet held Oct. 28. Varner graduated from Purdue in 1975 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. ECE’s annual Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award program recognizes alumni based on […] More

CLIFF GREENBLATT SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER ASRC FEDERAL Cliff Greenblatt is ASRC Federal general counsel and chief compliance officer. Greenblatt has responsibility for all legal aspects of the ASRC Federal enterprise including business and corporate transactions; government contracts compliance, litigation and disputes; and labor and employment matters. Greenblatt brings over […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. With the rapid development of new technologies, legal counsel is more important than ever. The general counsel executives in the government […] More

Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. Coupled with those changes is the work of both public and private sector organizations to hire qualified talent with skills and […] More

An Engility subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $90 million contract to help evaluate the security screening processes and equipment and information technology systems of the Transportation Security Administration. Engility said Tuesday its unit TASC will perform test planning and execution as well as provide data management and analysis services under the recompete contract. Lynn Dugle, CEO at Engility, […] More

Bill Bennett serves as Director of AECOM‘s Defense Department and Intelligence Community information technology services programs. Bennett worked at Engility‘s TASC subsidiary as director of the defense business unit before he joined AECOM in April 2015. He has also led the U.S. Army and defense intelligence group at CGI Federal and was a principal systems engineer with Lockheed […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has tasked OPSWAT to deploy the company’s Metascan multi-scanning tool in the Joint Regional Security Stack to bolster the security of Defense Department networks. OPSWAT said Thursday Metascan will support InQuest‘s network session inspection and analysis technology to build up JRSS’ malware detection capability. InQuest CTO Pedram Amini noted that the file analysis tool features a […] More

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on commercial weather data services that could help address the Defense Department’s requirements for space-based environmental monitoring weather information. The remote sensing systems directorate of the service branch’s space and missile systems center asked interested companies to submit white papers as responses to the RFI […] More

Wayne Rehberger, chief financial officer of Engility, has said the company looks to double the bid size for government contracts that it pursues following its purchase of TASC in a $1.3 billion all-stock deal that closed in February, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. TASC was awarded a prime position on a five-year, $5 billion contract in November […] More

Deanna Doan, a nearly 20-year program management professional, has joined Allegheny Science & Technology as director of defense and intelligence programs at the McLean, Virginia-based government services provider. She succeeds George Spencer, who will transition into an executive vice president role and support the company’s research, development and demonstration projects in the federal sector, Allegheny […] More