Japan-based telecommunications conglomerate Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NYSE: NTT) is planning to make a $3.52 billion offer to acquire a Dell business unit that provides information technology services to government, education and healthcare agencies, Nikkei reported Tuesday. The report said NTT looks to purchase...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a five-year, $199 million task order to update, run and maintain a web-based supply chain management system for the U.S. Agriculture Department. The WBSCM online platform is designed to help the department order, procure, distribute and track food products for the National School Lunch...
Barbie Bigelow, a former senior vice president and chief information officer at Engility™s (NYSE: EGL) TASC subsidiary, will join Pasadena, Calif.-based construction services contractor Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) as SVP and CIO. Bigelow will directly report to Chief Financial Officer Kevin Berryman and start in the role on&n...
Massachusetts-based hyperconvergence software startup SimpliVity has hired former Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) sales executives Gary DePreta and Geoff Fancher to join the former company’s sales team, CRN reported Monday. Kevin McLaughlin writes DePreta, formerly director of the national security agencies business at Cisco, will serve as head of S...
The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the names of seven companies that will partner with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to help build a fleet of B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber planes for the military service, Defense News reported Monday. Lara Seligman writes Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in a news briefing at the ...
A Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $400 million contract to continue to provide test, evaluation and support services at NASA™s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Test Evaluation and Support Team 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to Jacobs Techno...
A subsidiary of CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential five-year, $179.9 million contract to help the U.S. Special Operations Command gather, analyze and exploit geospatial imagery intelligence. The Defense Department said Monday that CACI-Athena Inc. will perform work in various U.S. locations and overseas unde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 7, 2016 ” ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) will provide financial, analytic and communications services to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s HIV/AIDS prevention program under a $34.6 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the award covers collec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 7, 2016 ” A Unisys (NYSE: UIS) security software platform is nearing approval from the National Security Agency to be included in the agency’s Commercial Solutions for Classified Program Components List, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. GCN reported Thursday NSA is conducting an evaluation of Unisys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 7, 2016 ” A second Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft has completed a flight test to check its mission systems avionics, external lighting and environmental systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the test covers operational checks on the tanker before the U.S....
