SEAKR Engineering has been selected as the sole prime contractor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Pit Boss Phase I Option II contract. Services provided for the contract will help actualize the Blackjack project, a DARPA initiative to integrate commercial satellites into a constellation consisting of affordable, small, secure and resilient military satellites. Specifically, […]
ASRC Federal has promoted Jennifer Felix as its new president and chief executive officer, having previously served as the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Felix is a 25-year industry veteran with experience in finance, business operations and organizational change management, mergers and acquisition due diligence, integration and strategy. She expressed commitment to […]
ECS, a Virginia-based information technology service management company, has delivered the first version of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation dashboard to the CDM program’s systems integrators. Joanna Dempsey, director of cyber solutions at ECS, confirmed the delivery of the minimum viable product dashboard at a MeriTalk webinar, where she also announced […]
The Air Force Materiel Command has awarded Invictus JV, a joint venture of Perspecta subsidiary Knight Point Systems, a spot on the $13.4B, 10-year Small Business Enterprise Applications Solutions program. The SBEAS program is aimed at providing Air Force organizations, along with other supporting government agencies, a platform for procuring a comprehensive suite of information […]
Eric Trexler joined Forcepoint in January 2018 as vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales. In the said role, Trexler is responsible for all domestic and international sales efforts for the two business segments, including driving new customer and partner relationships around cross-domain and insider threat, as well as presenting intelligent security solutions […]
Tim Lamb joined Chenega in October 2017 as the president of its security strategic business unit. In the said role, Lamb provides oversight to multiple complementary companies that offer security and protective services to customers in the U.S. and overseas. The executive helps the business unit increase shareholder value through law enforcement and protective security […]
The National Security Agency has released guidance containing recommendations and considerations that federal agencies should factor in when deciding what collaboration and video chat services to use during telework. The guidance offers a high-level security assessment of commercially available collaboration tools to provide agencies with a better understanding of their features and risks, particularly in […]
Zoom Video Communications has selected Oracle as its cloud infrastructure provider to address the strong spike in its meeting participants, which has climbed to a daily average of 300M. According to Eric Yuan, chief executive officer of Zoom, Oracle stood out from other platforms owing to the security, performance and unmatched level of support provided […]
Bill Zielinski has announced his resignation from the General Services Administration, where he currently serves as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category within the Federal Acquisition Service, to start a job in local government. Effective June 5, Zielinski will wrap up his four-year career at GSA, having made significant contributions to […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has tapped Maxar Technologies for land cover classification and change detection services through a combination of the Janus Geography program and the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70. Under the terms of contracts with a consolidated value of $20M, Maxar will leverage its change detection model to produce updates and enhancements, […]
