Atlanta-based Envistacom announced that it has been selected for two prime pool awards on the General Service Administration’s ASTRO indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide mission support for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The two awards will enable the provision of services through the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service over a 10-year period of performance […]
Tony Scardino is the managing principal at Grant Thornton Public Sector, working out of Falls Church, Virginia. An experienced senior executive with a proven track record leading financial management operations for large multi-national organizations, Scardino has been driving Grant Thornton’s public sector business for less than two and a half years. In his current role, […]
Robert Ashley joined Deep Water Point in early 2021 fresh from a 36-year career in the U.S. Army. As a principal in the government management consulting firm, the retired lieutenant general brings with him his vast experience in operational combat, intelligence, global security, cybersecurity, analytics and risk management. Ashely is described as being well versed […]
Texas-based engineering company KBR announced that it has been awarded a $126.7 million recompete by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the modernization of technical, logistical and safety-related transportation systems. The latest award represents a continuation of the company’s 11-year collaboration with the DOT’s transportation and logistics expertise center. Under […]
Virginia-based Fierce Software announced that Cloudera products are now available on the government’s electronic ordering system, GSA Advantage. The addition is in recognition of the growth in federal spending through the General Services Administration, Fierce Software said. Fierce Software provides government and commercial organizations with information technology and business process solutions designed to function productively […]
Arizona-based GlobalMed announced that its virtual health platform has received a Defense Health Agency authority to operate on the Department of Defense’s DHA Medical Community of Interest network. The certification allows the company to integrate its virtual health platform, including carts, medical devices, software and applications directly with the COI network, GlobalMed said Tuesday. With this […]
The U.S. Army has announced plans to test an entire company of unmanned combat vehicles in simulated battle in 2022 in an effort to refine the hardware and software needed to eventually manufacture fully operational combat robots. Gen. Ross Coffman, director of the Army Futures Command’s Next Generation Combat Cross-Functional Team, said the exercises will […]
The National Reconnaissance Office recently published its first solicitation for commercial space radar imagery as part of a larger effort to tap private-sector sources of space data. NRO Director Christopher Scolese said the request for bids represents a more agile approach to the acquisition of emerging remote sensing phenomenologies, such as commercial radar, hyperspectral imagery […]
Delays in the issuance of the U.S Army’s much-awaited Integrated Visual Augmentation System goggles were caused by technical difficulties that arose during real-world testing. Officials close to the program revealed that a problem was discovered in the wider field of view provided by the goggles, which “pushed the boundaries of waveguide technology capabilities.” In a […]
Parin Shah is the vice president of private equity at OceanSound Partners, based in the Greater New York City area. He is described as a growth-oriented private equity investor with over nine years of experience in enterprise technology, during which he has managed to originate or enable 23 acquisitions and five liquidity events across seven […]
