Fairbanks Morse Defense, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arcline Investment Management, has purchased AMMCON as part of efforts to expand the delivery of critical components and turnkey services to the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Military Sealift Command and other marine defense customers. AMMCON is a Jacksonville, Florida-based provider of c...
The U.S. Coast Guard plans to launch a competition for a contract to provide ship repair and maintenance support services for the USCGC Spencer cutter. The ship repair contract has an estimated value of over $100 million and is expected to be competed as a small business program....
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Aviation Logistics Center plans to recompete a contract for information technology professional services. The requirement will be competed as a HUBZone set-aside program through the National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition and Assessment Center’s Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3, also known as CIO-S...
The United States’ homeland security efforts are harnessing the power of technologies like artificial intelligence, satellite communications and edge computing as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Rear Admiral Christopher Bartz, the U.S. Coast Guard’s CIO and assistant commandant for C4 and IT, said the service branch wants to...
The Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 15 will bring together the foremost experts and decision makers from government and industry to discuss the nation’s most urgent homeland security challenges and what’s being done to address them. Click here to register, and read below for a breakdown of the summit’s spea...
Today, the influence of technology on homeland security is stronger than ever before. With cyberattacks now intertwined with more traditional homeland security threats, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is racing to adopt the technologies necessary to tackle a shifting array of challenges. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Homel...
John Myers, a more than four-decade law enforcement professional and subject matter expert, has joined CRDF Global as director of training and advisory services within the nonprofit cybersecurity organization’s security assistance division. He will oversee efforts to expand CRDF Global’s portfolio of global law enforcement and counterterrorism c...
By the time a new technology is funded, developed, prototyped, tested, produced and finally put in the hands of our warfighters, it’s often already outdated, as the federal government’s acquisition processes can take years to get through. The Defense Innovation Unit is on a mission to drastically speed up the Department of Defense’s acquisiti...
An affiliate of private equity firm Lone Star Funds has agreed to buy ship repair services provider Titan Acquisition Holdings from Carlyle (Nasdaq: CG) and Stellex Capital Management for an undisclosed sum. The parties expect the transaction to conclude in 2023, pending government approvals and other customary closing conditions, and Titan CEO Jim ...
The U.S. Coast Guard is soliciting feedback on a draft statement of work as the military branch looks to conduct a recompete of business and logistics management services to its Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber and Intelligence Service Center. USCG said Tuesday in a SAM notice that the follow-on procurement effort will have a five-ye...
