Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) closed its $215M cash acquisition of 1901 Group, a provider of managed information technology and cloud platforms in public and private sectors, a month after it announced the transaction. Leidos said Thursday it will operate 1901 Group as a wholly owned subsidiary and integrate the latter’s nearly 400 cloud, cyber and IT...
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 suppor...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will manufacture 12 more KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force under a $1.69B contract option. The award for the sixth tanker production lot covers licenses, data, subscriptions and a flat file, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. In a separate announcement, Boeing said the new contract brings the number...
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...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: REGN) will supply an additional 1.25M treatment courses of an antibody cocktail composed of casirivimab and imdevimab to the U.S. government under a potential $2.63B agreement with the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services. DOD said Tuesday the biotechnology company is scheduled to deliver the medici...
Global investment firm Francisco Partners has announced the appointment of Manny Rivelo, a more than 30-year executive in security and information technology sectors, as the new CEO of Forcepoint in a string of executive appointments after it completed the acquisition of the cybersecurity platforms developer from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RT...
Alan Lawrence, vice president of federal at Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DELL) Boomi business, said government agencies should shift their focus from maintaining legacy information technology systems and applications to advancing IT modernization to improve data security, employee and customer engagement and mission outcomes. “Data has become a...
President-elect Joe Biden plans to appoint Anne Neuberger, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as deputy national security adviser for cybersecurity within the National Security Council, Politico reported Wednesday. In this newly created position on NSC, Neuberger will oversee the coordination of...
Altamira Technologies will serve as the new team lead on its existing contractor teaming arrangement for the General Services Administration‘s potential five-year, $997 million MEGASTAR blanket purchase agreement. “We are excited to take on this Team Lead role on MEGASTAR which provides us with greater opportunities to support NASIC’s...
The Space Development Agency upheld its decision to award contracts to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and SpaceX to build missile tracking satellites for the proposed National Defense Space Architecture following the reevaluation of bids for the contracts, C4ISRNET reported Thursday....
