Chezian Sivagnanam, the chief enterprise architect of the National Science Foundation, will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Forum on June 13th. At the event, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss “Starting Your AI Journey” and the challenges that come with that proc...
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has appointed Judith Marks, president of Otis since 2017 and a three-time Wash100 winner, as CEO of UTC’s elevators manufacturing subsidiary. Marks previously served as CEO of Siemens USA and head of the industrial conglomerate’s Dresser-Rand business. She also held senior leadership positions at Lockheed...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that will establish a platform-agnostic technology provider within aerospace and defense segments. The combined company will operate as Raytheon Technologies and be headquartered in the greater Boston metro area upon the deal’s completion, whic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2019 ” Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) posted more than $95M in contracts from public sector customers — the U.S. Air Force, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Command — for Earth intelligence services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday the contracts, wh...
Last week, we outlined some of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) challenges to their upcoming IT modernization project; today we’d like to suggest some steps that will help ease CBP’s transition to a secure hybrid cloud services model. While CBP has a requirement for secure cloud adoption—and implementing this strategy will help...
Regina Kassar, former account manager of federal hybrid cloud software at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been appointed as Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) new account executive focused on the U.S. Coast Guard, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday....
ICF won a five-year, $48M recompete contract to to help the Environmental Protection Agency assess human health risks. The company said Wednesday it will provide new insights in the creation of analytic platforms and methods for EPA researchers to evaluate chemical hazards and environmental risks as part of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quan...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) saw its revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 increase 37 percent to $1.6B and recorded $178M in net cash provided by operating activities, up 102 percent from the prior-year period. SAIC said Thursday contract awards for Q1 FY 2020 reached $1.9B and net bookings hit $1.4B with a boo...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) CEO Christopher Kubasik said the company’s planned merger with Harris (NYSE: HRS) still needs approval from the Department of Justice, the European Union and Turkey, Inside Defense reported Thursday....
Stephen Bivona, an industry executive with over 25 years of supply chain management and logistics experience, has joined San Diego-based digital services provider TechFlow as vice president of business development....
