A judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims turned down motions by the Department of Defense and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to dismiss Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) lawsuit challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith’s decision me...
President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, who was the U.S. Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology from 2012 to 2016, to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering. Shyu serves on the boards of multiple technology and investment companies, such as Auterion Government Sol...
President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
The Department of Defense has issued a request for prototype proposals for the Operational Spectrum Comprehension, Analytics and Response project under a potential five-year, $2.5 billion other transaction agreement with the National Spectrum Consortium. The OSCAR requirement seeks to develop a software application with automated workflows, sensor n...
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions has officially launched and appointed federal industry veteran Lynne Chamberlain as president of regulated markets and government. Chamberlain will oversee the company’s efforts in helping the U.S. government adopt enterprise Linux, edge, Kubernetes and other open source platforms to accelerate digital transformat...
Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, presented the sixth Wash100 Award to Jill Singer, vice president of Defense and National Security for AT&T’s public sector business and First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) program, during a visit to AT&T headquarters on Thursday. As a 2021 Wash100 Award reci...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $99 million multiple-award contract to seven small businesses for pavement design-bid-build projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s southwest area of responsibility. NAVFAC Southwest received 16 proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Departmen...
Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, chief information officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept requires an enterprise cloud to ensure accessibility and deliver the data processing capability to the tactical edge, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “Just because you’ve established the envi...
Guidehouse CEO Scott McIntyre has received his fifth consecutive Wash100 Award and been recognized for his leadership and vision to drive company growth that demonstrates his work to secure and implement major acquisitions such as Navigant as well as reorganize the company’s focus on advancing its emerging technology capabilities. “The Wash100 A...
The U.S. Army has selected Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) to develop a common data fabric that would facilitate data sharing and synchronization between incompatible systems. The company said Tuesday the Rainmaker multidomain technology is meant to link different platforms across air, land, sea, cyber and space domains to enable coordinated militar...
