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  • Arvenita Cherry Elevated to President Post at Maximus Foundation
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    Arvenita Cherry Elevated to President Post at Maximus Foundation

    Maximus has promoted Arvenita Cherry to the roles of vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion and president of the government services provider’s foundation. Cherry took over John Boyer, who served as Maximus Foundation‘s president for 17 years and will remain the foundation’s chairman until his retirement, Maximus said Monday. Following his retirement within the […] More

  • Space Force Seeks to Establish Contract Vehicle for Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 Program
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    Space Force Seeks to Establish Contract Vehicle for Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 Program

    The U.S. Space Force has issued a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a program that seeks to acquire spacecraft and space access for science and technology experiments. Space Systems Command intends to compete the Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 program as a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with separate delivery orders for spacecraft […] More

  • GlobalFoundries Secures Federal Funding to Boost GaN Semiconductor Production
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    GlobalFoundries Secures Federal Funding to Boost GaN Semiconductor Production

    Semiconductor chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries has secured $30 million in federal funding to produce gallium nitride on silicon chips designed for use in electric vehicles, power grids, solar energy, wireless technology and 5G broadband devices. GlobalFoundries said Monday the funding will be used to purchase tools and further implement 200 mm GaN wafer manufacturing at its […] More

  • Eaton to Provide Additional Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, Services Under GSA Contract
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    Eaton to Provide Additional Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, Services Under GSA Contract

    The General Services Administration has expanded a contract with power management company Eaton for electric vehicle chargers to include additional EV supply equipment and services. Eaton said Monday it will deliver Green Motion EV chargers and energy storage platforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and provide a framework to […] More

  • Omni Federal Receives USAF Award for Continued Digital Literacy, Training Support
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    Omni Federal Receives USAF Award for Continued Digital Literacy, Training Support

    Omni Federal has received a $44 million phase three award to provide data security support and training to the U.S. Air Force Business Enterprise Systems Product Innovation Directorate. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research program covers the addition of data as a service as an operational capability on Cloud One, the […] More

  • CSA Chief Growth Officer Ronald ‘Fog’ Hahn Participates in GovCon Wire Q&A
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    CSA Chief Growth Officer Ronald ‘Fog’ Hahn Participates in GovCon Wire Q&A

    Ronald “Fog” Hahn leads corporate growth strategy and a governmentwide acquisition center of excellence in his role as chief growth officer at Client Solution Architects. He also oversees CSA’s business development, branding and marketing, technology development, competitive intelligence and government relations functions. The retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel said in a recent Executive Spotlight interview […] More

  • Ensco to Test New Stadler Trainsets at DOT Center; Jeff Stevens Quoted
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    Ensco to Test New Stadler Trainsets at DOT Center; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    Ensco’s rail business will help Stadler‘s U.S. subsidiary test diesel multiple-unit trainsets at the Transportation Technology Center in Colorado under an agreement signed between the two companies. The DMU testing program will mark the first industry effort to take place since Ensco took over responsibility for the operations of the DOT-owned railroad equipment testing and […] More

  • Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero
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    Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero

    Ohio-based defense electronics supplier Pole/Zero has received a six-year, $53.4 million contract to provide products for the communications suite of P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol planes operated by the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international customers. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers the procurement of 346 communication trays and antenna interface units, the Department of Defense said Monday. […] More

  • Proofpoint’s Phil Fuster: Continuous Risk Profiling Can Aid DOD Cyber Defenses
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    Proofpoint’s Phil Fuster: Continuous Risk Profiling Can Aid DOD Cyber Defenses

    Phil Fuster, vice president of federal sales at Proofpoint, said he believes the Department of Defense should create and maintain a risk profile on their workforce, suppliers and contractors in order to be nimble and secure from cyberattacks. He told DefenseScoop in an interview that having a continuous risk profile specific to the DOD’s staff, […] More

  • Sue Gordon, 6 Others Appointed to DOD Defense Innovation Board
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    Sue Gordon, 6 Others Appointed to DOD Defense Innovation Board

    Former Central Intelligence Agency executive Susan Gordon has been added to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Board along with several other new inductees. Gordon, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, will join leaders such as former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen and LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on the board, to help encourage a technology pipeline […] More

  • A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Sen. Mark Warner
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    A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Sen. Mark Warner

    Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., was recognized by the Boy Scouts of America’s National Capital Area Council as its recipient of the Technology Good Scout Award in 2003, when he was still serving as the governor of Virginia. The lawmaker is part of the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget and Rules Committees and serves as chairman of […] More

  • NASA Picks Rocket Lab to Power Mobile Space Robots With Solar Panels
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    NASA Picks Rocket Lab to Power Mobile Space Robots With Solar Panels

    Rocket Lab has secured a contract with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide solar panels that will power small, autonomous robots programmed to work as a team to explore and collect data on lunar and planetary surfaces. For the effort, the contractor said Friday it will use the inverted metamorphic multi-junction solar cells that its recently […] More