Glen Lyle, a former senior vice president at information technology and management consulting firm TeraThink, has been named a VP for CGI's (NYSE: GIB) homeland security sector.

Todd Schuerhoff, a 25-year information technology market veteran, has been named a vice president at CGI's (NYSE: GIB) federal business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday.

CGI (NYSE: GIB) has secured a potential six-year, $267M task order to help the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency create a shared services platform to support federal customers under the Department of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative.

George Mason University and industry executives discussed the implications of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic for both agencies and companies during a webinar hosted by GMU's Center for Government Contracting. "Panelists noted that businesses need to take an extremely proactive role in communicating and engaging with their government customers and that government agencies need to likewise recognize the centrality of the contract workforce for their respective missions," Jerry McGinn, the center's executive director, told GovCon Wire.

CGI (NYSE: GIB) has agreed to acquire Reston, Va.-based information technology and management consulting firm TeraThink for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its enterprise application services for federal government clients. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of March and will allow CGI Federal to build up its consulting capabilities and incorporate TeraThink’s data analytics, application development and agile enablement capabilities into its IT offerings portfolio, CGI said Wednesday.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, has presented his key takeaways from a presentation by Katie Arrington, chief information security officer at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, about DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. McGinn noted that CMMC not only applies to DoD, but also to companies and individuals.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, wrote in an opinion piece posted Thursday on The Hill that the Defense Production Act invoked by President Donald Trump serves as an “important tool” as the country seeks to come up with short- and medium-term responses to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the defense industrial base.

Anish Joseph, a federal market veteran with more than two decades of information technology consulting experience, has returned to CGI as vice president of the firm's U.S. state government solutions business,  G2XChange ETC reported Wednesday.

CGI announced on Tuesday that it acquired Annams Systems Corp., doing business as Sunflower Systems, a provider of asset management software products and services. The merger strengthens CGI’s position serving the needs of commercial entities and federal government agencies, including universities, law enforcement, national laboratories and other organizations.  “CGI’s merger …

CGI (NYSE: GIB) has bought San Ramon, Calif.-based asset management products and services provider Sunflower Systems, also known as Annams Systems Corp. Both companies agreed on the merger Aug. 27 and finalized the combination Aug. 30, CGI said Tuesday.