GovConWire's Government Contracting News 6/13/2022

News

Raj Iyer: Army to Invest $1.4B in ERP System Modernization

Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, said the service intends to spend $1.4 billion by fiscal year 2023 on the modernization of its enterprise resource planning systems used to manage its financial, logistics, human resources and training activities, Breaking Defense reported Friday. He told reporters during a briefing Thursday the military branch

Contract Awards

Strategic Alliance Solutions Wins $204M MDA Facility Management Support Contract

A joint venture between Strategic Alliance Business Group and BCF Solutions has won a five-year, $203.9 million contract to support the life cycle management of Missile Defense Agency facilities. The award to Strategic Alliance Solutions JV covers facility maintenance and repair oversight, real property alteration, building operations planning, space and environmental management and move coordination

Artificial Intelligence

CIA’s Marie Falkowski: “Data Innovation is a National Emergency”

As U.S. adversaries accelerate their use and development of artificial intelligence and data, the intelligence community is driving advancements in these areas to avoid being outpaced and to ensure the country’s technological advantage on the global stage. But is enough being done, and at a fast enough rate? Marie Falkowski, director of artificial intelligence and

Executive Moves

Thad Anderson Promoted to Presidio Federal General Manager

Thad Anderson, a 35-year technology industry veteran, has assumed the role of general manager of Presidio’s federal arm on a permanent basis. His promotion came six months after serving as acting GM of Presidio Federal and overseeing the structural changes needed to establish the subsidiary as an independent entity focused on supporting federal government clients,

Industry News

Senate Bill Seeks to Rescind Obsolete Contracting Requirements to Improve Disaster Response

The Senate passed a bill that would repeal a provision in a 2006 law that directed the Department of Homeland Security to preclude the use of subcontracts for over 65 percent of the cost of certain contracts covering emergency response and recovery work. Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, chairman and ranking member

News

GM Defense Makes Global Marketplace Push With New Business; Steve duMont Quoted

General Motors‘ (NYSE: GM) defense subsidiary has established a new arm focused on expanding the company’s global marketplace footprint through delivery of products and services to international defense and government customers. General Defense‘s international entity will offer technologies for electric, autonomous and connected vehicles of U.S. allies and partners to meet their mobility requirements, the

Contract Awards

Northrop Receives Navy MQ-4C UAS Test Order

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $40.6 million order to conduct a full-scale fatigue test and an effect-of-defect evaluation on the U.S. Navy’s Triton MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system. The company will additionally help the service branch examine system fatigue and damage tolerance of the autonomously operated system through post-test activities, the Department of Defense

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Q&A With Intel’s GM of Defense & National Security Group Greg Clifton Tackles Government’s Tech Requirements, IT Modernization

ExecutiveBiz featured Greg Clifton, general manager of defense and national security group at Intel, in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He talked about his work with Intel and how the group works to match company technologies with the mission requirements of government customers. Other topics tackled during the Q&A were information technology modernization,

Contract Awards

Air Force Selects Vangarde for Special Mission IT Services

Vangarde has won a $45.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a range of information technology support services to the U.S. Air Force. The company will administer systems, engineer desktops, manage content and configuration and develop software under the IDIQ award, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Work also covers support for the branch’s Oracle architecture

GovConWire's Government Contracting News 6/13/2022

Raj Iyer: Army to Invest $1.4B in ERP System Modernization

Strategic Alliance Solutions Wins $204M MDA Facility Management Support Contract

CIA’s Marie Falkowski: “Data Innovation is a National Emergency”

Thad Anderson Promoted to Presidio Federal General Manager

Senate Bill Seeks to Rescind Obsolete Contracting Requirements to Improve Disaster Response

GM Defense Makes Global Marketplace Push With New Business; Steve duMont Quoted

Northrop Receives Navy MQ-4C UAS Test Order

Q&A With Intel’s GM of Defense & National Security Group Greg Clifton Tackles Government’s Tech Requirements, IT Modernization

Air Force Selects Vangarde for Special Mission IT Services

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