Biden picks campaign veteran for federal CISO job

Chris DeRusha, who led information security on the Biden campaign, is the federal government's new chief information security officer.

  • By Justin Katz

DHS flips award, CACI fights back

After a year of protests and sticking with CACI International, the Homeland Security Department goes the other direction in awarding an engineering and IT contract to ManTech. Now CACI is the one to protest.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Avantus adds Pavco to exec team

Avantus Federal expands its executive team with the addition of Luanne Pavco, a former board of advisers member and nearly two-decade federal market veteran.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Can the Army justify a 10-year sole-source contract? Maybe.

Accenture is pushing back on the Army's plan to award without competition what could be a $500 million contract for continued development of a pay and personnel system.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Navy to stand up DevSecOps task force

The Navy will field a task force in March that will deliver recommendations that will lay the ground work for the Navy's enterprise-wide roadmap for implementing DevSecOps.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Deloitte buys cyber threat hunting firm

Deloitte purchases the assets of a cyber threat hunting company that focuses on managed services for government agencies and customers in certain commercial sectors.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Brillient starts on new growth plan, founder returns to CEO post

Brillient Corp. has embarked on a new two-year growth plan to further pursue digital transformation opportunities and that also sees the company's founder return to the CEO position.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army CIO details plan to rein in $2B in bloated IT spending

Army CIO Ray Iyer is shaping a new Army Enterprise Digital Strategy the he will use to change the organization's culture and rein in $2 billion of bloated IT spending.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

How GovCon earnings reports might review 2020 and beyond

Many government contractors are getting ready to report their financial figures for 2020, a year many executives have said is the most challenging ever in their careers. Here is what could come up when the companies talk to Wall Street and by extension everyone.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts

PROJECT 38: Inside Telos' path to its IPO and what's next

For this episode of Project 38, Telos CEO John Wood takes Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers inside the five-decade-old firm’s initial public offering and why that path makes sense for them.

Biden's equity review will likely touch small business contracts

President Biden has ordered a review of barriers seen as stopping underserved communities from participating in government programs including contracts.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Biden creates governmentwide 'equity agenda'

The OMB director and the head of the Domestic Policy Council will play key roles in implementing the objectives of a new executive order, which eliminates a Trump-era purge of diversity training materials and includes the creation of a new data working group .

  • By Natalie Alms

White House names GSA senior leaders

The Biden-Harris administration tapped former officials to senior slots at the General Services Administration, but the nomination of an administrator is still to come.

  • By Natalie Alms

Northrop wins $3.6B Air Force battlefield comms contract

Northrop Grumman has won a $3.6 billion Air Force contract to build out the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system to improve the warfighter's situational awareness.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Jack London remembered for dedication, leadership, business acumen

Business leaders from across the GovCon market are sharing their remembrances of Jack London, the long-time CACI International leader who died this week. He was recalled as a highly ethical leader who was dedicated to customers and the company.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Verizon protests lost Coast Guard task order

Verizon's protest of a task order that went to AT&T is just the latest protest involving the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle and indicates competition is alive and well for work through that next-gen telecommunications vehicle.

  • By Nick Wakeman

New Senate Armed Services chair takes his seat

With Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) as the new chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrats will set the tone on defense policy and budgets.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

GSA makes more on-ramp awards as court date nears for $5.75B human capital vehicle

The General Services Administration makes a pair of awards for the on-ramp of its massive human capital and training services vehicle as the agency prepares to defend them in court against one protestor.

  • By Ross Wilkers

CACI's Jack London dead at 83

Jack London, a giant of the government contracting industry and architect of the modern CACI International, has died at age 83.

  • By Nick Wakeman

The Biden administration and GovCon's leadership opportunity

As the Biden administration takes shape, the new president has called for unity and government contracting firms and the executives that lead them have an opportunity to set a positive example for both industry and country.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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