GovConWire Top Stories 4/26/2021

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Contract Awards

DLH Lands $202M Follow-On Award to Continue VA Medical Logistics Support

DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) will continue to help the Department of Veterans Affairs deliver prescriptions to former soldiers under a contract worth potentially $202 million over five years. The follow-on contract entails medical logistics support to the VA’s Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy locations using automated processing and delivery platforms, DLH said Friday. The CMOP system processed

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2021 Wash100 Voting Results: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic Continue Trading First and Second Place; Wash100 Voting Ends This Friday

The 2021 Wash100 Vote Standings will be coming to an end this Friday, April 30th. With only six days left in the most competitive voting season in the history of the Wash100 Award, your votes are necessary to determine who will secure first place in the standings and who will represent the most prestigious award

Contract Awards

State Department OKs $1.65B MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft Sale to Australia

The State Department has approved Australia’s request to buy General Atomics-built MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft, related equipment and services under a $1.651 billion foreign military sales agreement. The transaction includes the purchase of up to 12 units of MQ-9B, Multispectral Targeting systems-D EO/IR sensors, Lynx AN/APY-8 synthetic aperture radars with ground moving target indicator, RIOTM

Financial Report

Spire Secures Investment From Francisco Partners; Peter Platzer Quoted

Spire Global, a space-based data and analytics provider, will receive a convertible term loan worth $70 million from global investment firm Francisco Partners as part of a growth financing deal. Spire CEO Peter Platzer said in a statement published Friday the financing will help the San Francisco-based company accelerate the deployment of intersatellite links designed

Contract Awards

AWS, Google Win $1B Israeli Government Cloud Migration Project

Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project Nimbus‘ initial phase. IBM (NYSE: IBM),

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John Heller Receives Sixth Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

John Heller, formerly PAE’s president and CEO, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, Heller’s sixth in the last seven years, during a recent visit from Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. “Earning six Wash100 Awards in his eight years of tenure with PAE, John Heller is a stabilizing force that

Executive Moves

SUSE RGS Names Lynne Chamberlain Regulated Markets and Government President

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 transformation and advance innovation, SUSE RGS said Wednesday. “Government and

Contract Awards

Ball Aerospace Wins $91M USAF Avionics Cybersecurity R&D Contract

Ball Aerospace has won a five-year, $91 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop protected mission systems using an open systems approach and modern computing technology. The company will perform cybersecurity, open-system architecture, high-speed networks, modeling and simulation, precision timing and heterogeneous processing work under the Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and EW

Executive Moves

Brian Fitzpatrick Named Chief Growth Officer of Advanced Technology International

Brian Fitzpatrick, former chief growth officer of LMI, has joined Advanced Technology International to fill the same position and brings more than two decades of government services industry experience to the Summerville, South Carolina-based nonprofit technology development consortium, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. In his new capacity, Fitzpatrick is responsible for business development, communications and strategic

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DHA Issues RFP for Defense Health Workforce Transformation Contract

The Defense Health Agency is seeking proposals for the establishment of a managed technology stack intended to support digital workforce transformation efforts under DHA’s program executive office responsible for modernizing electronic health records and data sharing platforms across the U.S. military. DHS said Thursday it seeks industry-based expertise, studies, planning and other offerings to establish

GovConWire Top Stories 4/26/2021

DLH Lands $202M Follow-On Award to Continue VA Medical Logistics Support

2021 Wash100 Voting Results: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic Continue Trading First and Second Place; Wash100 Voting Ends This Friday

State Department OKs $1.65B MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft Sale to Australia

Spire Secures Investment From Francisco Partners; Peter Platzer Quoted

AWS, Google Win $1B Israeli Government Cloud Migration Project

John Heller Receives Sixth Wash100 Award From Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

SUSE RGS Names Lynne Chamberlain Regulated Markets and Government President

Ball Aerospace Wins $91M USAF Avionics Cybersecurity R&D Contract

Brian Fitzpatrick Named Chief Growth Officer of Advanced Technology International

DHA Issues RFP for Defense Health Workforce Transformation Contract

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