Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), and private equity partner Silver Lake Partners will own approximately 52 percent of VMware (NYSE: VMW) once the latter’s spinoff is completed, CRN reported Monday. In mid-April, Dell Technologies announced plans to spin off its 81 percent ownership of VMware as part of efforts to...
Noblis has purchased McKean Defense and its two affiliates – Cabrillo Technologies and Mikros Systems – for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its impacts in the defense mission area and deliver new technologies and capabilities to customers. Amr ElSawy, president and CEO of Noblis and a two-time Wash100 awardee, and the...
Dr. William Kassler, a clinical and public health professional, has joined Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) as the company’s first U.S. government chief medical officer. He will oversee Palantir’s life sciences and public health teams across the company’s U.S. government and international business, Palantir said Monday. Shyam Sankar, chief o...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has received a $318 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration deploy equipment for the security screening of checked passenger bags at airports managed by the federal government. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will expand the fielding of baggage screening platforms to aro...
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) has agreed to sell its integration platform-as-a-service business Boomi to investment firms Francisco Partners and TPG Capital for approximately $4 billion in cash. Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Dell, said in a statement published Sunday the proposed sale comes as the company decides to focu...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business has received a potential $234 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to update Blocks 1 and 2 of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System to facilitate the integration of GPS Block III Follow-on satellite capabilities. The Space and Missile Systems Center obligated $2...
Chris Johnson, former president of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) satellite systems business, has been appointed as senior vice president of space programs delivery at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), effective May 24. The new SVP will be responsible for leading and overseeing 1,900 employees who design, develop, integrate, test and deliver space platfor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 30, 2021 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. will continue providing the U.S. Air Force with program management services and subject matter expertise to assist the service branch in managing its facilities and utility systems, ExecutiveBiz reported April 14. Work is covered by a $4.1 million modification to a previously awarde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 30, 2021 — CAES will manufacture a millimeter frequency converter to supply to an undisclosed client that develops fifth generation wireless technologies and looks to apply the CAES technology to 5G equipment, ExecutiveBiz reported April 14. The ordered mmW up- and down-converter will be designed to enable multichannel com...
Holly Freedlander, corporate controller of Xator since September 2019, has been promoted to serve as chief financial officer at the Reston, Virginia-based security and intelligence services provider starting May 1. She will succeed the retiring Matt Galaski, who has led the company’s overall financial operations since 2014 and led the financin...
