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  • TD SYNNEX Appoints Alicia Lynch as Chief Information Security Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TD SYNNEX Appoints Alicia Lynch as Chief Information Security Officer

    TD SYNNEX, an IT distribution company, has named Alicia Lynch as its chief information security officer. Lynch, who shared her appointment in a LinkedIn post, brings to the Fremont, California-based company more than 25 years of cybersecurity experience across the private industry and government sector, including the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Before […] More

  • John Hogan Joins BlueHalo as Vice President for Advanced R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Hogan Joins BlueHalo as Vice President for Advanced R&D

    Global defense contractor BlueHalo has appointed John Hogan as vice president for advanced research and development. A team “working on inspiring technologies” has been entrusted to him by Johnathan Jones, BlueHalo senior vice president, Hogan said in a LinkedIn post. Immediately before joining BlueHalo, Hogan worked for over a year as chief engineer and group […] More

  • Palantir Names Former Congressman Mike Gallagher as Defense Business Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Palantir Names Former Congressman Mike Gallagher as Defense Business Head

    Palantir Technologies has appointed Mike Gallagher, a former Wisconsin congressman, as head of its defense business.  Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, expressed confidence that Gallagher’s “unique talents,” which helped shape government policy against U.S. adversaries, will play a vital role for the company and its mission partners, according to a post on Palantir’s LinkedIn page. The […] More

  • Army Issues Final Call for Space and Missile Defense Command Support Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Issues Final Call for Space and Missile Defense Command Support Proposals

    The U.S. Army has announced the final request for proposals on the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration II Domain 1 contract to support the missions of its Space and Missile Defense Command. The solicitation is for a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity basic contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price task orders, according to a SAM.gov notice published […] More

  • SAIC Books $262M Modification to Air Force Contract on Cloud Computing Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Books $262M Modification to Air Force Contract on Cloud Computing Services

    Science Applications International Corp. has secured a contract modification worth up to $262 million for continued support services to the U.S. Air Force’s cloud computing capability. The modification brings close to $1.25 billion the total cumulative face value of the contract awarded SAIC in June 2018 under the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 Governmentwide Acquisition […] More

  • NASA Issues Sources Sought Notice Regarding Consolidated Program Support Services Program Planning & Control Follow-On Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Sources Sought Notice Regarding Consolidated Program Support Services Program Planning & Control Follow-On Contract

    The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center seeks to determine the availability of providers with the capability to meet the requirements under the upcoming Consolidated Program Support Services Program Planning & Control II acquisition and has issued a sources sought notice for the effort. CPSS PP&C II, a follow-on to a prior $462.5 million contract of […] More

  • Naval Research Laboratory Awards KBR Space Science Instruments R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Laboratory Awards KBR Space Science Instruments R&D Contract

    KBR will provide research and development support to the Naval Research Laboratory’s space science instruments and experimental payloads under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a potential total value of nearly $40 million if all options are exercised. Work on the contract, which has a base value of $7.6 million, will be done at the NRL’s headquarters […] More

  • Wiz Earns Moderate FedRAMP Certification for Cloud Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wiz Earns Moderate FedRAMP Certification for Cloud Security Platform

    New York-based cybersecurity startup Wiz has received Moderate authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud native application protection platform.  With its Wiz for Government offering, federal agencies can eliminate the cyber vulnerabilities of their blind spots and meet regulatory compliance, the company said in a blog posted Thursday. The platform […] More

  • Ultra I&C Demos Command and Control Gateway in NATO Exercise; Bradford Powell Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ultra I&C Demos Command and Control Gateway in NATO Exercise; Bradford Powell Quoted

    Ultra Intelligence & Communications announced it will start incorporating feedback from the deployment of its ADSI command and control system in the recent NATO-led Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exploration, Experimentation, Examination Exercise in Poland. The system, deployed in partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps, underwent field tests on combined joint all-domain command and control within a […] More

  • Krishnan Rajagopalan Joins NobleReach Foundation Board to Support Talent Development Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Krishnan Rajagopalan Joins NobleReach Foundation Board to Support Talent Development Programs

    The NobleReach Foundation, a private nonprofit supporting tech and entrepreneurial talent development, has named as its board member Krishnan Rajagopalan, CEO emeritus of executive search company Heidrick & Struggles. Rajagopalan’s decades of talent acquisition experience across industries will help in its talent development programs, NobleReach said Tuesday. Named among Bloomberg Business Week’s “100 Most Influential […] More

  • NLRB Taps Verizon for Network Upgrade Services; Michael Adams Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NLRB Taps Verizon for Network Upgrade Services; Michael Adams Quoted

    The National Labor Relations Board has awarded Verizon a $4 million enterprise infrastructure solutions contract to reconfigure and update the software-defined wide area network of the agency’s 48 branches and headquarters. The installation of new security features and cloud hosting services is also included in the reconfiguration task for the NLRB, an independent federal agency […] More

  • ABS to Provide Emergency Management Support to Washington Headquarters Services' Facilities Directorate Under IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ABS to Provide Emergency Management Support to Washington Headquarters Services’ Facilities Directorate Under IDIQ Contract

    The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services has chosen Accelerated Business Strategies, a joint venture between Advanced Management Strategies Group and Xcelerate Solutions, to provide emergency management support to its Facilities Services Directorate.  The job, which will be carried out under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, calls for analytical and technical support to ensure the all-hazards, round-the-clock […] More