Growth, tech and talent leadership moves across the market
One promotion to chief operating officer and post-acquisition hire of a new chief financial officer also feature. Agile Defense Jennifer Hosking has joined the Enlightenment Capital-backed digital transformation specialist as vice president of proposal development, a role that involves task order responses and larger complex bids. Hosking founded and led her own independent proposal and strategy […]
Pentagon hits Accenture, Booz Allen and Deloitte with contract cancellations
The trio are the only named contractors in a group of cuts announced by Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth, who claims $5.1 billion of cancelled contracts with $4 billion in savings. The Defense Department says it has found $4 billion in savings by cutting consulting and non-essential contracts with Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and other unnamed […]
Serco wins $96M Navy contract for Constellation-class support
Technical services firm to help Navy’s next-generation frigate with planning, design, delivery and testing. Serco Inc. has won a $96 million contract to continue supporting the Navy’s Constellation-class shipping building effort. The Constellation class is the next generation of guide missile vessels. Serco provides technical services to support planning, design, construction, delivery and testing of the […]
Long-sought goal of better Pentagon buying may finally be within reach
A new executive order seeks to overhaul defense buying. A handful of innovators within the Defense Department are already showing the way. Calls to overhaul the Pentagon’s buying process go back decades—to the Revolutionary War, one former congressman joked—from defense secretaries from William Perry to Donald Rumsfeld to Robert Gates to Ash Carter. An executive order […]