Amazon Web Services has been awarded a potential five-year, $50 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the U.S. Space Force with commercial cloud products and professional services to support launch missions of the Space Launch Delta 45 and 30 units.  The award covers the provision of infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings t...

Lathan Turner, a more than two-decade military and business leader, has joined public-benefit software company Second Front Systems as executive vice president of global public sector. Turner will be responsible for managing Second Front’s business unit focused on serving U.S. and international government customers, driving revenue growth and ...

Atom Computing has named GovCon industry veteran Greg Muhlner as vice president of public sector and Ken Braithwaite, former secretary of the Navy, as a member of the board of directors. Muhlner brings to the role over 15 years of business development and sales experience in the federal government sector, the company said Wednesday. He...

Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has acquired Hypergiant Industries, an artificial intelligence-based software provider, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to complement its portfolio company Forward Slope. Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer will continue to oversee the AI defense platform company, according to a joint release published...

Rahul Thakkar, a former Amazon Web Services managing director, has been named president of BAE Systems‘ Bohemia Interactive Simulations subsidiary. Thakkar will oversee the day-to-day operations of the military training and simulation software developer and explore potential market opportunities for the business, BISim said Tuesday. He previou...

Central Ohio is eyed to accommodate an estimated $7.8 billion project by Amazon‘s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business to broaden its data center operations in the state. The new campuses will expand Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing capability by hosting additional servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other relat...

John Newman, former senior account executive of federal financials at Amazon Web Services, has joined Parasoft as senior vice president of the software testing automation company’s aerospace and government solutions division. He will oversee efforts to build strategic partnerships to help customers adopt artificial intelligence-based tools for...

CDW (Nasdaq: CDW) has purchased Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud services provider to the public sector, for an undisclosed amount to grow information technology offerings in the government and education markets. CDW said Tuesday it does not expect the transaction to have a material impact on the company’s net sales for 2023 and non-GAAP...

Multi-cloud has been touted by Pentagon leaders as the future of defense and the foundation of widespread technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Cloud is inextricably intertwined with software modernization, JADC2, zero trust and a myriad of other top DOD priorities and programs. With the DOD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capabil...

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has unveiled a technology strategy to advance investments in the areas of zero trust, multicloud management, 5G, mission artificial intelligence and machine learning, software factory and automation for IT operations. GDIT said Wednesday it is leveraging those six digital accelerator are...