Three companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $125 million small business set-aside contract to provide cybersecurity and privacy support services to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov states that NIST has selected Analygence, CyberESI and Electrosoft as contractors of the CAPSS indefinit...
Marc Sosa, formerly vice president of information technology at Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary, has been appointed chief information officer of HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division. He will drive HII Mission Technologies’ enterprise information technology priorities and strategic objectives and guide the divisio...
Dan Wilbricht, former general manager for the public sector at Devo, has been named president of Optiv‘s cybersecurity and information technology arm focused on the U.S. federal sector, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. He will head Optiv + ClearShark and work with the executive leadership team to grow the Denver-based company&#...
LightRidge Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leaders Skip Williams and Jim Congdon as chief technology officer and chief software officer, respectively. The portfolio company of private equity firm ATL Partners was established in March to design, develop and deliver small space and airborne sensors and pay...
Eqlipse Technologies has wrapped up its acquisition of SR Technologies in a move that aims to expand its portfolio of products and engineering offerings for key national security customers within the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. SRT is expected to strengthen Eqlipse’s electronic warfare and signals intelligence capabil...
Private investment firm Washington Harbour Partners has made another platform investment in the federal information technology sector with its acquisition of cybersecurity company SIXGEN. Ethan Dietrich, founder and CEO of SIXGEN, will continue to lead the company, Washington Harbour said Wednesday. SIXGEN offers red team capabilities and other cybe...
Jason Proctor, advisory systems engineer for cyber recovery and compliance at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies looking to better protect data from cyberattacks and take an all-encompassing approach to security should reduce the complexity of strategies and tools. “In other words, one strategy should cover the entire inf...
Tim Dunne, chief operating officer of Sealing Technologies, has succeeded Edward Sealing as CEO of the Parsons (NYSE: PSN) subsidiary. In a LinkedIn post, Sealing announced the leadership change and his transition to the role of chief technology officer after serving for more than a decade as chief executive of the cybersecurity platforms provider. ...
The Department of the Interior has awarded General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business a potential 10-year, $2.54 billion contract to support the Indian Health Service’s health IT modernization effort. The award of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was announced through a notice published Wednesday on SAM.gov....
Private equity firm Bain Capital is about to finalize its acquisition of consulting firm Guidehouse for $5.3 billion including debt and an agreement is expected as early as Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Guidehouse caters to the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs and other federal government agencies. It also p...
