Maxar Technologies™ SSL subsidiary has secured a position on a potential five-year, $750M contract from NASA to develop spacecraft technologies for the Defense Department. SSL is among three contractors selected to support the the Small Spacecraft Prototyping Engineering Development and Integration“Space Solutions program managed...
Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday the proposed merger of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software firm with Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) will create a new company that will deliver software across all major cloud service providers. “We work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google, the IBM Cloud,...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 5, 2018 ” QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) has partnered with Cohesity for the latter to power the QTS Managed Backup platform, which works to protect and ensure the recovery of data and applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The hybrid colocation and data center company said Wednesday Cohesity’...
Jackie Fendrock, who joined ECS in 2011, has been promoted to vice president of business development and operations at the Fairfax, Va.-based information technology services provider. She will be responsible for aligning ECS’ strategy with government market opportunities as well as manage its customer, partner and industry relationsh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 3, 2018 ” Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, has said the company focuses on the “solutions” side of its investment efforts amid the defense sector’s increasing interest in small satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 17. The Was...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 3, 2018 ” Carahsoft Technology will offer federal and state agencies a “zero trust” endpoint protection software platform developed by AppGuard via NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The security company said Monday its distr...
Mike Ammann, formerly strategic relationship executive of ViON, has been appointed director of federal civilian sales and strategic partnerships at the Herndon, Va.-based government information technology contractor. He will be responsible for overseeing the company’s sales strategies and partner relationships in the data center tech...
Guy Montminy, former senior vice president and deputy general manager of the platforms and services sector at BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm, has been promoted as the sector’s president. The more than three-decade BAE veteran replaces Erwin Bieber, who will assume an advisory role until he retires from the company in 2019, the company s...
Kevin Youel Page, formerly deputy commissioner of the General Services Administration™s federal acquisition service, has been named a specialist executive within the civil government sector of Deloitte™s consulting practice. Page will utilize the professional services company™s portfolio of offerings to meet the strategic ne...
The Defense Department on Tuesday announced that the Pentagon Force Protection Agency detected a substance that is suspected to be ricin in two envelopes received at DoD™s remote mail screening facility. DoD said in a tweet that it handed over the suspicious mail to FBI for further analysis. The Wall Street Journal reported that the...
