The U.K.’s ministry of defense could award a $2.9 billion contract for the purchase of 50 Apache helicopters to Boeing (NYSE: BA), The Telegraph reported Saturday. Alan Tovey writes MoD could issue the procurement and servicing contract to the U.S. company at the Royal International Air Tattoo military air show in July...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 31, 2016 ” Vencore will provide mission support to the U.S. Cyber Command as part of the first task order under a $460 million contract awarded through the General Services Administration, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the task order is worth $89 million and will c...
May 23 – May 27 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Just when we thought GovCon was on a merger-and-acquisition hiatus, two deals have garnered our attention this week with one that has definitive effects in the public sector and a second that might. Our...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP), has said the company continues to focus on efforts to build on its software portfolio for national security and classified government programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He told IT Business Edge in an interview publi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer for IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) global business services, believes one-third of the U.S. government’s $3 trillion healthcare budget has been underutilized, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. Salzman wrote in an IBM Center for the Business of Government blog ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide a public cloud platform to support Salesforce‘s (NYSE: CRM) services as the latter seeks to expand its international infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. AWS said Wednesday Salesforce plans to migrate core services such as Sales Clo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Vencore has been certified by Virginia’s veterans services department under the Virginia Values Veterans program for the company’s commitment to build up veteran hiring and retention efforts, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it plans to add 1, 800 veterans and ...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has agreed to purchase Itseez, a developer of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms. Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things group at Intel, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Itseez will join Intel™s IoT group to develop deep-learning-bas...
Jon Greaves, former Carpathia chief information security officer, has been named QTS Realty Trust‘s (NYSE: QTS) new chief technology officer in line with the latter’s efforts to build on its executive leadership. QTS noted Thursday that Greaves will report directly to Chad Williams, QTS chairman and CEO. Greaves held a number of po...
Nicholas Masucci, chairman of the board of directors at Louis Berger, will retire from his role at the Morristown, New Jersey-based professional services firm on July 1. Masucci, who cited health issues as the reason for his retirement, will continue to serve as a non-executive board member on a part-time basis, Louis Berger said...
