GovConWire's Government Contracting News 11/11/2021

Executive Moves

ECS Appoints John Heneghan President, Greg Adams SVP in Series of Exec Moves

ECS, ASGN’s (NYSE: AGN) federal government subsidiary, has named Chief Operating Officer John Heneghan to succeed the retiring George Wilson as the company’s president and promoted Greg Adams, formerly vice president of the homeland security sector, to senior VP of the justice and homeland security business unit. Heneghan will continue to build up ECS’ client

Industry News

Dawne Hickton, EVP and COO of Critical Mission Solutions for Jacobs, Presented Second Consecutive Wash100 Award By Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson

Dawne Hickton, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Critical Mission Solutions for Jacobs, was presented her 2021 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent 4×24 membership dinner. This marks the second consecutive year that Dawne Hickton has received the most prestigious and respected award in all of government contracting

Events

Michael Berkowitz of Resilient Cities Catalyst to Headline GovCon Wire Event on Climate Resilience

Michael Berkowitz, founding principal of climate-focused non-profit organization, Resilient Cities Catalyst, will deliver the keynote address at a Nov. 18 virtual event hosted by GovCon Wire Events to share insights on how public and private sector organizations can leverage urban resilience movement approaches to ensure future success as climate change continues to remain at the forefront

Contract Awards

5 Companies to Share in $8B Navy Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization IDIQ Contract

The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has awarded five companies spots on a potential $8 billion contract to support military construction projects under the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. NAVFAC Pacific received six proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and is providing $2 million to each awardee to cover the contract’s minimum guarantee, the

News

Executive Spotlight With Noblis SVP & Corporate Officer Mile Corrigan Tackles RunGrants Launch, Company Efforts to Modernize IT, Centralize Customers’ Cloud Capabilities

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Mile Corrigan, senior vice president and corporate officer for Noblis, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. She discussed the launch of RunGrants platform for grants management, the efforts to modernize information technology and help clients centralize their cloud capabilities as well as today’s conversation about the aerospace market’s aviation autonomy.

Contract Awards

Accenture Federal Arm to Continue US Marshals IT Modernization Support Under $618M Task Order

An Accenture (NYSE: ACN) subsidiary has won a seven-year, $618 million task order to modernize information technology systems for the U.S. Marshals Service, a law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice responsible for securing the federal judiciary. Accenture Federal Services will continue to update the agency’s case management platform and expand its mobile, analytics,

News

GovernmentCIO’s Salient CRGT Business Delivers Multidomain Lab to USAFA; John Anderson Quoted

Salient CRGT, which now operates as part of GovernmentCIO, has handed over to the U.S. Air Force Academy a multidomain laboratory meant to support training of cadets and enable them to lead operations across land, maritime, air, space and cyberspace domains. The laboratory has joint all-domain operations centers, remotely piloted aircraft flight rooms and flight

M&A Activity

True Velocity to Buy Weapon Tech Maker LoneStar for $84M

Ammunition technology provider True Velocity has agreed to acquire LoneStar Future Weapons for approximately $84 million as both companies are pursuing the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons contract. True Velocity said Wednesday the deal would add LoneStar’s portfolio of weapons and projectile technology products to the acquirer’s suite of lightweight ammunition offerings with more

Executive Moves

Navy Market Veteran Rick Sabol Named VTG SVP

Rick Sabol, a more than three-decade industry veteran, has joined VTG as a senior vice president with responsibility for programs supporting the U.S. Navy. He joins the Virginia-based naval engineering company after his previous role as SVP of operations at Science Applications International Corp.‘s (NYSE: SAIC) defense systems group, VTG said Wednesday. John Hassoun, president

Artificial Intelligence

Maj. Gen. Matthew Easley Closes Potomac Officers Club’s The Cost of AI Event With Keynote Address

The Potomac Officers Club hosted the third installment of its Data-Driven 2021 Series, The Cost of AI, on Tuesday, which brought together public and private sector leaders to discuss how federal government agencies must plan for budget changes, potential technology disruptions and strategy shifts as they work to integrate innovative artificial intelligence solutions and accelerate digital