Why every small GovCon needs a board of advisors
Shifting budgets, tougher compliance rules and competition from big primes make it easy to get stuck in an echo chamber but an advisory board brings in experience, contacts and credibility without the legal baggage of a board of directors, writes market expert Mark Amtower. To say this market has become more complex, especially for small contractors, […]
Why every small GovCon needs a board of advisors
Shifting budgets, tougher compliance rules and competition from big primes make it easy to get stuck in an echo chamber but an advisory board brings in experience, contacts and credibility without the legal baggage of a board of directors, writes market expert Mark Amtower. To say this market has become more complex, especially for small contractors, […]
DHA embarks on health data management contract strategy
The Defense Health Agency wants industry’s ideas for working with clinical, administrative, operational, financial, scheduling, encounter, assessment, document and analytics data. The Defense Health Agency has started to sketch out a plan for hiring single or multiple contractors that can help integrate health data from multiple sources, including vendor-developed and Veterans Affairs Department-linked applications. At the […]
Air Force unveils first draft of $2B base security tech recompete
Air Force officials are setting up the multiple-award GUARD contract to aid the transition of the security systems to a modular open systems architecture. The Air Force has unveiled a first draft of the solicitation for a potential $2 billion recompete of a contract focused on the acquisition, integration and sustainment of base defense security systems. […]
Serco’s new North America CEO: ‘I want to press the accelerator’
Barbara Supplee is betting that Serco North America’s naval engineering, training business and fixed-price track record can help drive faster growth. Barbara Supplee is one day into her new CEO role at Serco North America, replacing the former chief executive who left after less than a year on the job. But Supplee is not looking at a […]
Anthropic loses legal fight to shed DOD’s designation as a ‘supply-chain risk’
The label is more typically assigned to companies suspected of ties to adversarial governments. Anthropic will remain a Pentagon-designated supply-chain risk, thanks to federal judges who ruled that the Defense Department can prohibit its employees and contractors from using the AI company’s products for DOD business. The designation has been in force since March, when the […]
WT 360: JPMorgan Chase’s gameplan to help boost economic, national security
Sara O’Rourke, managing director for SRI solutions at JPMorgan Chase, takes us through all the moving parts of the global banking giant’s Security and Resiliency Initiative for supporting critical industries. JPMorgan Chase stood up its $1.5 trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative in the fall of 2025 with flexibility built into the system because one approach […]
WT 360: JPMorgan Chase’s gameplan to help boost economic, national security
Sara O’Rourke, managing director for SRI solutions at JPMorgan Chase, takes us through all the moving parts of the global banking giant’s Security and Resiliency Initiative for supporting critical industries. JPMorgan Chase stood up its $1.5 trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative in the fall of 2025 with flexibility built into the system because one approach […]
