Henry Chao, a more than two-decade veteran of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been appointed chief technology officer at Columbia, Md.-based health information technology contractor FEI Systems. FEI said Tuesday Chao will oversee the development of service offerings for CMS and state Medicaid programs and coor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 12, 2018 ” DynCorp International has again been named in an annual list of military-friendly companies in recognition of its hiring, retention and development programs for veterans and their spouses, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 30. The firm said Nov. 29 this is its 12th year in Viqtory‘s rost...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 12, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services in an effort to enable customers to access satellite data and send satellite commands via the cloud even with unexpected outages or disturbances, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 28. The AWS Ground Station service will opera...
Tim Hascall, an executive vice president and chief operations officer at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), will retire from his roles on Dec. 31. Jeff Guy and Jeff Robertson, who are both senior VPs at Maxar, will take on expanded roles to assume Hascall™s current responsibilities, the company said Tuesday. Guy will oversee corporate procur...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2018 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has developed a big data analytics-powered training system built on Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government cloud that will work to deliver real-time assessments of pilot competencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 27. The CAE Rise platform, which is available to the defense mar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2018 ” Amazon Web Services is set to jointly host a “hackathon” with Eastern Foundry as part of a Small Business Administration project to address disaster response issues and increase access to research grants in support of small businesses, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 26. Fedscoop reported Nov. 21 th...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
Shareholders in Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) will vote Jan. 16 on whether to approve IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) proposed $34B acquisition of the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source technology provider. A Dec. 11 record date has been established for Red Hat’s special meeting of stockholders, the company said Monday. IBM first announced...
Speedcast International announced Thursday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has approved the company™s $135M acquisition of Globecomm Systems. CFIUS found no unresolved national security concerns holding up the acquisition. Speedcast expects the purchase of Globecomm to finalize before the end...
A new McAleese & Associates report says President Donald Trump appears to have expressed support to a defense budget request of $733B to $750B for fiscal year 2020 following his meeting with lawmakers and other government officials. Trump met with Defense Secretary James Mattis; National Security Adviser John Bolton; Senate Armed ...
