Pat Gelsinger, CEO of virtualization software provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) since September 2012 and a four-decade technology industry veteran, has been appointed by the board of directors at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to serve as the chipmaker's CEO effective Feb. 15. He will succeed Bob Swan, who has led Intel since January 2019, the company said Wednesday.

VTG has acquired Fairfax, Virginia-based systems engineering company Intelligent Shift for an undisclosed sum in a move to add intelligence agencies to the former's national security customer portfolio. Chantilly, Virginia-based VTG said Wednesday the transaction also expands the company's systems, digital and software engineering support offerings.

Booz Allen Hamilton executives Steve Escaravage, senior vice president, and Graham Gilmer, principal, will discuss how to advance technology at speed as well as how private-public partnerships are critical to maintaining the competitive advantage within the technology race during Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 30th. 

The U.S. Space Force has been added to the U.S. intelligence community and now serves as the ninth Department of Defense component in the interagency group, DOD announced Friday.

Axiologic Solutions, a federal information technology services contractor, has purchased intelligence services firm Knowledge Link for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its capabilities in support of missions of national security customers.

Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has agreed to acquire technology services provider Zenetex for approximately $112M as part of efforts to advance its converged infrastructure strategy and expand its customer base with the addition of new intelligence, defense and foreign military sales clients. "Zenetex broadens our reach into the Intelligence Community and expands our engineering and digital technology offerings, which is critical as we expand our capabilities to help our clients' transition to a more instrumented and converged approach to supply chain and facility management,” said Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus and a 2020 Wash100 award winner.

The Army Research Laboratory has selected composable infrastructure provider Liqid to build a pair of supercomputing systems with Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) Xeon processors and NVIDIA's (Nasdaq: NVDA) Ampere graphics processing units as part of a technology refresh initiative at ARL's Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.

Brian Greenberg, head of marketing competitive intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Aruba Networks subsidiary, gave ArchIntel an in-depth perspective on how CI teams could generate immense amounts of data for analysis and the foundational skills he is looking for when hiring an analyst. In the Q&A conversation, he also discussed how his team works to avoid the risk of bias and the role of technology in the CI process. This is the 40th in a series of interviews with Competitive Intelligence and GovCon executives who share their insights about creating and sustaining a competitive advantage.

BlueHalo has bought Maryland-based companies Fortego and Base2 Engineering in a pair of deals aimed to expand signal intelligence and cyber offerings for the national security sector. Baird and Aronson Capital Partners advised the acquired firms on the transactions. "Bringing Fortego and Base2 together creates a sizable concentration of highly skilled experts in cyber and SIGINT – a capability that BlueHalo can now leverage across the wide spanning missions to which they provide support," John Song, a managing director at Baird, told GovCon Wire.

ArchIntel, a completely customized, human-intelligence powered daily briefing service, has released its latest compendium, “Know Your Competition” to expand the conversation and provide today’s business leaders with the first hand perspective of the competitive intelligence landscape through the eyes of its experts. Visit ArchIntel.com to read the full “Know Your Competition: A comprehensive compendium and insightful industry view through the eyes of executive CI experts” for yourself.