In recent years, the U.S. intelligence community has established new priorities as it continues to address an array of new challenges presented in the modern intelligence landscape. As technological needs evolve, the necessity of transforming traditional acquisition methods and mindsets toward the process has been highlighted. For the CIA to fu...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Wyn Elder, managing director of global and U.S. public sector at Box, to know more about the company’s growth initiatives and the three pillars of developing capabilities for public sector customers. He also tackled the impact of recent acquisitions on Box’s portfolio, the...
ExecutiveBiz featured Wyn Elder, managing director of global and U.S. public sector at Box, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about Box’s strategy to help address current challenges of its customers, including the federal government, as well as the company’s recent contracts from the General Se...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
AirBoss of America‘s defense subsidiary has closed its acquisition of BlackBox Biometrics, a provider of wearable sensors designed to detect explosive blasts, through a potential $27 million deal that includes $7 million in upfront cash payment. AirBoss Defense Group, which first announced the transaction in March, will pay the remaining $20 m...
AirBoss of America‘s defense subsidiary has agreed to buy Rochester, New York-based wearable blast overpressure sensor provider BlackBox Biometrics for approximately $27 million in a move to expand survivability technology offerings for warfighters and first responders. Landover, Maryland-based AirBoss Defense Group said Monday its Critical So...
BAE Systems' San Diego Ship Repair business has won a potential $207.5M contract to modernize, repair and maintain a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy. The company will perform these services as part of USS Boxer docking and selected restricted availability efforts, the Department of Defense said Friday....
Arlington Capital Partners has launched a new company, Tyto Athene, after the Washington-based investment firm completed its $75M cash purchase of Black Box™s (Nasdaq: BBOX) government solutions business. Tyto Athene will provide systems integration support and managed services for communications platforms of the Defense Department and civilian...
Black Box (Nasdaq: BBOX) has secured a potential five-year, $166 million task order contract to help the U.S. Army modernize its communications infrastructure in Southwest Asia. The company said Tuesday it will update the service branch’s Unified Capability Sets for Outside Plant, Inside Plant and Data Center systems under the contract. J...
Paul Chapman, chief information officer at cloud storage firm Box (NYSE: BOX), has said government agencies should adopt œmicro-services to build digital applications that work to allow citizens and end users to share resources and collaborate on any device. Chapman wrote such micro-services aim to help organizations develop integrated shared s...
