The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
The Department of the Treasury has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) an $84 million contract to migrate the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s workload and data to a cloud environment. An award notice posted Monday on SAM.gov indicates that the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cloud transition services and support has a five-year perform...
John MacMillan, a 36-year public and private sector information technology veteran, has joined Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as vice president of future market development. He will guide the future strategy for the company’s U.S. services business and work with customers to prepare them for next-generation innovations in the sector, Maximus said Thursda...
David Zolet, a three-decade government technology industry veteran and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Oasis Technology & Engineering, a portfolio company of Brightstar Capital Partners, as CEO. He succeeds the retiring Tom Colatosti, who will continue to serve on the board of Oasis T&E as chairman, the company said Wednesday. Colato...
Chad Kim, chief technology officer of Avantus Federal for the past four years, was appointed to the same position at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm. He announced his new CTO role in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, a little over a month after NewSpring Holdings completed the approximately $590 million sale of Avantus to Qinetiq US. The...
In 2022, the GovCon landscape saw announcements and completions of merger-and-acquisition deals at privately held, publicly traded and private equity backed companies that sought to expand what they could offer to their federal customers. Continuing reading below for Executive Mosaic editorial team’s rundown of transactions and insights from i...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured a $488.66 million contract to continue helping the Department of Veterans Affairs sustain and enhance its personnel data management and processing platform. The company will provide renewal subscription services to its shared service software as a service offering to support the sustainment and enhancement of VA’s H...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to buy government technology services provider Octo from Arlington Capital Partners in a move to complement Big Blue’s IT and digital transformation offerings for the federal sector. Baird served as financial adviser to Arlington and Octo on the transaction. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and all the...
IBM has agreed to acquire information technology modernization and digital transformation services provider, Octo, from Arlington Capital Partners in a deal advised by Baird. The acquisition, which marks IBM’s eighth this year, is anticipated to augment the organization’s digital transformation capabilities in defense, health and civil...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its federal market organization with the appointment of Terry Halvorsen and Mark Johnson as vice president of federal client development and VP of federal technology sales, respectively. Both executives will work to support IBM’s vision to facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud across the f...
