Mavis O'Neill, a former associate partner at IBM's services arm (NYSE: IBM), joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) as executive director of capture for the Herndon, Va.-based contractor's federal health business, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.

Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been elected to serve as CEO and board member of the company, effective April 6. The board of directors also elected James “Jim” Whitehurst, an SVP at IBM and CEO of Red Hat, to serve as president of IBM.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured a one-year, $145.8M contract modification to continue helping the U.S. Army maintain an enterprise resource planning system used to manage the service branch's financial functions and assets.

Anne Altman, a 34-year veteran of IBM (NYSE: IBM) and chairman of Siemens Government Technologies’ board of directors, has been appointed a board member at Gunnison Consulting Group. She is the CEO of Everyone Matters, a citizen-based service-providing organization she also co-founded in 2017.

Akima has appointed Richard Valentine, a three-decade IBM (NYSE: IBM) sales and capture veteran, as vice president of business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday.

IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Center for The Business of Government and the National Academy of Public Administration have established a new center to advance the development and implementation of Agile government principles. G. Edward DeSeve, a visiting fellow of the IBM Center and a fellow of the academy, will lead the Agile Government Center, the academy said Friday.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration V2.0 appraisal program for the company's commitment to maintaining delivery and quality standards.

The Customs and Border Protection migrated its Automated Commercial System’s collections processing functions to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) SmartCloud for Government platform in June as part of efforts to achieve cost savings and reduce its physical information technology infrastructure, Nextgov reported Friday.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a potential $60M cost reimbursement contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, verify, fabricate and test a prototype neural inference processor. The Air Force Research Laboratory received two offers for the project via a competitive acquisition process.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has collaborated with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to explore the potential applications of commercial quantum technology to U.S. Air Force operations. AFRL said Tuesday it will work with the company's researchers to examine optimization challenges, quantum chemistry simulation and machine learning algorithms on actual hardware through the IBM Q Network.