Lockheed Martin wants its international sales to reach 25 percent of the company’s total revenue over the next few years in a move to mitigate the impact of shrinking defense spending, the Washington Post reported Friday. Bruce Tanner, Lockheed’s chief financial officer, told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that a majority of that revenue is tied to contracts the U.S. government […] More

The Department of the Navy is seeking industry proposals to manage and maintain the service’s enterprise resource planning system. The Navy issued a request for proposals Friday for products and services such as business services management, reporting and analysis, user management and operational support. The service plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a base […] More

The U.S. Defense Department’s health services provider is seeking a contractor to support medical information technology systems across the military. In a notice published Friday on FedBizOpps, the Defense Health Agency said it would issue potential five-year contract for global help desk support related to the military health system. DHA wants a vendor who can […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency is requesting information on potential industry sources in the planning and development of next-generation endpoint security system capabilities and technologies. DISA said in a notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps that it is looking for solutions that secure endpoints from advanced persistent threats and tools that manage endpoint operating systems. The agency has noted […] More

A Naval Surface Warfare Center division has requested information on potential sources of equipment intended to detect trace amounts of explosives. NSWC’s explosive ordnance disposal technology unit seeks to leverage industry’s existing platforms that can identify triacetone triperoxide, urea nitrate, potassium chlorate and ammonium nitrate mixtures, the Department of the Navy said Nov. 13 in […] More

Federal agencies that want to acquire cloud computing technologies and services should realize that public cloud platforms are not the only way forward for them as they push to adopt cloud tools, Steve Picot of Vion Corp. has told ExecutiveBiz. Picot, vice president of federal sales for the federal technology services contractor, also told ExecutiveBiz that agencies […] More

IBM will not make the Watson cognitive computing system a large portion of the proposal that company and its partner Epic will provide to the Defense Department for the agency’s potential 10-year, $11 billion electronic health records contract, an IBM official has told the Washington Post. “We’re going to bid what the government asks for.. right now they’re asking […] More

Raymond Haller is senior vice president and general manager of MITRE Corp.’s Center for National Security. In that role, he is responsible for research, development and system acquisition support of intelligence and information systems, which support numerous DoD and Intelligence Community sponsors. MITRE’s National Security Engineering Center is a federally funded research and development center sponsored […] More

Alan Stewart serves as chief financial officer at Oceus Networks. He joined the Reston, Va.-based company after nine years as CFO and senior vice president of ICF International, which grew its annual revenue six-fold during his tenure there. The 34-year financial and operational veteran led 10 acquisitions during his time at ICF and has completed three initial public offerings, including the […] More

Amazon Web Services has certified Agilex Technologies as a consulting partner in recognition of Agilex’s AWS competencies the company developed with accredited professionals and four customer references. Roger Baker, Agilex chief strategy officer, said Thursday the company works to reconfigure existing systems so that they operate in the cloud platform. “Having led some of the government’s largest […] More

A non-profit subsidiary of Battelle has received at least $2 million from the state of Ohio’s Straight A Fund program to manage education and learning networks centered on science, technology, engineering and math. “We believe STEM education is the best way for children to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed,” Aimee Kennedy, Battelle’s vice president […] More

Deltek expects the total value of government solicitations for the fourth quarter of 2014 to reach at least $63 billion, almost $21 billion higher than the total value for the same period last year, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Jennifer Sakole, a principal analyst at Deltek, writes that the mid-Atlantic region will present 450 of the anticipated 1,300 total solicitations and be worth an estimated $28 […] More