TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 4, 2020 — A joint venture between Amentum and Envirocon will offer deactivation, decommissioning and removal services to the Department of Energy through a contract vehicle worth potentially $3B over 10 years, GovCon Wi... Read more
Accenture Federal Services (AFS) has been awarded a position on a potential 10-year, $950 million contract vehicle to help the U.S Air Force build and operate the Advanced Battle Management System, the company announced Monday. Read more
Cubic's mission solutions unit has been awarded a $38 million contract to provide a high-capacity backbone prototype for the U.S. Air Force's Joint Aerial Layer Network, the company announced Monday. Read more
L3Harris Technologies will move to build a satellite for position, navigation and timing system demonstrations after the company passed a critical design review with the U.S. Air Force. The Melbourne, Fla.-based defense firm can now begin the pr... Read more
Boeing has converted a retired F-16A/C aircraft into an unmanned configuration for weapons training use as part of a public-private partnership agreement with the U.S. Air Force's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. Read more
AppTek has introduced 16 languages for automatic speech recognition and 25 for neural machine translation via Booz Allen Hamilton's enterprise artificial intelligence platform and marketplace. Booz Allen introduced the Modzy software offerin... Read more
North American Forgemasters has secured a potential $31M Department of Defense investment to sustain production of metal forging products for the U.S. Navy and its Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Read more
FSCX has won a potential six-year, $82M contract to help the U.S. Air Force teach military personnel the skills of survival, evasion, resistance and escape in combat missions. Read more
Waltham, Mass.-based software company Dynatrace has secured moderate impact level approval for its artificial intelligence-based cloud monitoring technology under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Read more
Ira Entis, growth and strategy lead at Accenture’s federal arm, has said that while implementing artificial intelligence could heighten investment returns, a significant amount of productivity gains might vanish due to lack of staff training. Read more
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken have returned to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft after spending 64 days in orbit as part of the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. Read more
Horacio Rozanski, president and CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said he believes the company is geared up for growth driven by its recent financial performance and market position to address federal agency clients’ dem... Read more
Alion Lands $182M Navy Task Order to Build Virtual, Constructive Training System; Katie Selbe Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2020 — Alion Science and Technology will develop a virtual and constructive training platform for the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona under a potential 48-month, $182M task order, GovCon Wire repo... Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2020 — Former Science Applications International Corp. executives Caroline McConnell and Jason Siminski recently joined Altamira as chief human capital officer and vice president of business development, respectively... Read more
Magellan Federal Names Aaron Betz Senior Director of VA Programs
Magellan Federal has appointed Aaron Betz as senior director of the company’s Department of Veterans Affairs programs. Read more