President Donald Trump has enacted the Secure 5G and Beyond Act, which requires the executive branch to create a strategy for protecting 5G and future network generations. Trump has three months to create a government-wide network security plan that includes 5G-related national security issues and the advancement of "responsible" development and deployment of the emerging […]
CACI has landed a $180.34M Navy contract for special operations communications systems, satellite communications and network support services. Most of the work will be done in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is expected to be finished by March 2025. Performance may be extended until September 2024 if all options are exercised. The five-year contract is a […]
Jeff Bohling is the senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta's defense business group. He is responsible for the company's $600M business with the Department of Defense and all branches of the Armed Forces. Bohling exceeded industry standards by achieving double-digit margins during his tenure, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before he joined Perspecta […]
The Navy has awarded Sabre Systems a $77.73M enterprise information technology services contract in support of the Naval Air Systems Command Digital Group. Work will be done in Patuxent River, Maryland, and is expected to be finished by May 2025. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Sabre shall provide digital transformation planning and execution, enterprise alignment, […]
The White House plans to nominate John Whitley as director of the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office. He currently serves as the Army's assistant secretary for financial management and comptroller. If he is nominated, Whitley will join William Jordan Gillis, who was nominated as the next assistant secretary of defense for sustainment. Despite objections […]
Science Application International Corp. has awarded 1901 Group a subcontract for cloud migration services under the former's cloud computing contract with the Army. The subcontractor's cloud factory team shall migrate the Army's information technology infrastructure and enterprise application to a cloud environment. SAIC previously landed the contract under the IT Enterprise Solutions-3 contract vehicle. The 1901 […]
The Global Command and Control System-Joint, which provides key information to military leaders, has just half of its required security controls at seven sites, according to a report from the Department of Defense Inspector General. Physical access control and account management are among the eight controls not implemented out of the 17 required. The information technology system […]
Pratt and Whitney, a Hartford-based subsidiary of United Technologies, has landed a $193.78M contract for the purchase of long-lead materials for the low-rate initial production of Lot 15 F135 propulsion systems. Under a cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, the company shall support the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-Department of Defense participants and foreign military sales customers. Most of […]
Lockheed Martin has scored a $98.8M contract for the sustainment of the Littoral Combat Ship Component-Based Total Ship System 21st Century and other related system elements. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost contract, Lockheed shall provide maintenance and evolution of the LCD COMBATSS-21. A Lockheed-led team designed the Freedom-variant LCS with a steel monohull design at Fincantieri […]
Timothy Conway, a Wash100 winner, is the public sector president of NTT Data, a Japanese system integration company he has served in for nearly a decade. Conway is an information technology veteran with over 28 years of public sector experience in management and technology consulting. His experience includes technology program management, application and outsourcing for public-sector […]
