Parsons‘ Polaris Alpha subsidiary has won a 2019 CSO50 Award from IDG Communications“™ CSO magazine for its approach to corporate security operations. Polaris Alpha said Thursday its integrated network security group implemented and applied a standard model from the Defense Department and Defense Information Systems Agency to secure enterprise network. The team considers defense network as an ecosystem […] More

The Defense Intelligence Agency has approved four three-year partnership agreements under a program meant to encourage large contracting firms to guide smaller businesses in capability improvement efforts. Teams under the Mentor-Protege Program will focus on technological and application areas such as artificial intelligence, counterintelligence, analysis, mission support and organizational effectiveness, DIA said Tuesday. The Defense Department launched […] More

AECOM has secured one of six contracts worth up to $970 million in total to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency manage a partnership effort to reduce potential risks from weapons of mass destruction and related technology. John Vollmer, president of AECOM“™S management services group and a three-time Wash100 recipient, said in a statement released Wednesday […] More

A General Dynamics business unit has tested in Texas a remote video surveillance platform designed to support border security operations. General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Parsons“™ government services business to help the Department of Homeland Security“™s Customs and Border Protection field six Relocatable-Remote Video Surveillance Systems in McAllen and Laredo, Texas, the company said […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight team line-ups for a software defined radio hackfest in November which will be held at the NASA Ames Conference Center in Moffett Field, California. DARPA said Monday that participants of the Bay Area Software Defined Radio Hackfest include members of the academia, industry and SDR enthusiast community who […] More

Charles Litz, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former program manager at Advanced Technology Systems Company, has joined management and technology consulting firm ARServices as director of research and development operations. ARServices said Tuesday Litz will lead the company’s efforts to grow its federal market footprint and oversee business relationships with government customers such as the Defense Threat […] More

Jim DiClementi, formerly vice president of business development at Leidos, has been named senior director of capture at Herndon, Virginia-based professional and technical services contractor Irving Burton Associates. DiClementi will lead IBA“™s efforts to pursue indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and governmentwide acquisition contracts, IBA said Thursday. He has decades of experience in the areas of strategic planning, capture and […] More

Jannet Walker Ford, former vice president and North America director of strategic programs and policy at Parsons, will join Cubic‘s transportation systems business on March 6 as VP and general manager for the Eastern Region and Americas. “Jannet brings a wealth of expertise from the private and public sector focusing on transportation systems, and is known […] More

The Professional Services Council re-elected several executives and appointed new members to its 2017 executive committee and board of directors during its annual meeting held Thursday. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture“™s federal services business; and Deb Alderson, president and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions; were respectively re-elected as PSC“™s chair and vice chair, […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Space Industry Association of Australia have jointly facilitated a forum to discuss opportunities and challenges facing Australia’s space industry. Lockheed said Wednesday the Securing Australia’s Space Industry Forum included a panel discussion and keynotes from Michael Frater, rector at University of New South Wales Canberra, and Tim Parsons, CEO of space startup accelerator Delta-V. […] More

The U.S Army has awarded five companies spots on a potential three-year, $9 million contract for environmental, planning, conservation-restoration and sustainment support to various military projects. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide comprehensive environmental services for the Army Corps of Engineers’ military and civil works projects as well as the Defense Department, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and Defense […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. Coupled with those changes is the work of both public and private sector organizations to hire qualified talent with skills and […] More