The Department of Defense has appointed Craig Martell, a former executive at rideshare company Lyft, as its first permanent chief digital and artificial intelligence officer. Martell will take over the duties of DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman, who served as CDAO in an acting capacity. In his new role, Martell will be in charge […]
ICF, a strategic consulting company, announced that it has been re-awarded a spot on a $94 million Federal Highway Administration blanket purchase agreement to improve U.S. transportation systems. The five-year, multiple-award BPA calls for technical services in support of next-generation multimodal transportation management systems, ICF said Tuesday. According to the company, it will support FHWA […]
Telecommunications company CallTower and its federal market partner, Team Consulting Inc., have secured a spot on the General Services Administration Schedule. The GSA Schedule is a government-wide contract intended to simplify agencies’ procurement of commercial products and services, CallTower said Tuesday. Using the long-term contract, CallTower’s potential government customers can save time by using the […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $504.4 million in conditional funding for a large-scale project to build a green hydrogen production and storage facility. DOE will award the funding to Advanced Clean Energy Storage I, Mitsubishi Power Americas, Magnum Development and Haddington Ventures. The debt financing would go to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Project […]
Billy Biggs serves as vice president for the public sector at WalkMe, a San Francisco, California-based software development company that helps organizations through their digital transformation journey. WalkMe offers a public sector-focused digital adoption platform designed to streamline employee training, increase data accuracy with validation and automation and enable users to self-serve their digital tools. […]
New pieces of spending legislation and the public sector’s increased focus on small businesses provide an opportunity for proactive companies to grow their government contracting operations. Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek and a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, said that despite the increase in business opportunities, contractors must […]
Maxar Technologies, a space technology company, announced that it secured government contracts worth $202 million over a six-year period in the first quarter of 2021. The awards involve work related to artificial intelligence, data analytics, software development, data conditioning, geospatial intelligence, maritime domain awareness, and training and development, Maxar said Monday. Maxar said that the […]
LinQuest, a provider of digital solutions to the national security community, announced its participation in the inaugural Department of the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Summit. During the event at Eglin Air Force Base, government contractors delivered presentations on topics such as model-based systems engineering, military campaign analysis and adaptive learning, LinQuest said. Eric Spittle, […]
Reggie Townsend, director of the data ethics practice at SAS, will serve on a high-level artificial intelligence government advisory committee. As a member of the National AI Advisory Committee, Townsend is now part of a team tasked with advising the president and the White House’s National AI Initiative Office, WRAL TechWire reported. The Department of […]
Fifteen universities will participate in a new Department of Energy competition focused on engineering new technologies for battery electric vehicles. DOE said the EcoCAR EV Challenge is aimed at advancing the Biden administration’s efforts to power the expansion of the U.S. automobile sector. EcoCAR EV has a combined investment of $6 million and will be […]
