TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 21, 2017 ” Mitre will collaborate with Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology to build on cyber and physical security measures in preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Monday the memorandum of understandi...
Dave McClure, formerly chief strategist of cybersecurity at Coalfire’s federal business, has joined Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business as director of the federal chief information officer advisory practice. Accenture said Thursday McClure will work to advise federal CIOs on modernization strategies and digital tra...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense segment has received a $466.8 million contract modification to produce Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle variants for the U.S. Army based the FMTV A1P2 technical data package. The Army will provide funds and performance locations with each order and the company is scheduled to finish ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 ” SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP) will collaborate with technology investment company C5 Accelerate in support of a business accelerator program for companies in the national security market, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The innovation partnership will utilize the latter’s data management and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 ” Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) seeks to support startup companies and other partners in government, academia and local communities with an estimated $1 billion investment that is aimed to advance the development of artificial intelligence technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Our belief is that AI will br...
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has said she has no concerns on Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) proposal to acquire Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) and that the service branch intends to monitor the transaction™s progress, Defense News reported Tuesday. œObviously, we watch these things and make sure that no matter [what] happens when c...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) posted another YTD high with its third consecutive daily increase, up 0.867 percent to 104.825. Engility Holdings topped the GCI with an almost 5 percent daily gain, while SAIC, AECOM, ICF, and ManTech International all posted greater than 2 percent increase on the day. All three major indices a...
Tom Ruff, vice president of public sector at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said government agencies should establish a comprehensive œdefense-in-depth strategy to protect networks from distributed denial-of-service attacks, cross-site scripting and oth...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 18, 2017 ” Two Cubic (NYSE: CUB) business units have set up exhibits to showcase various technologies at the Air Force Association’s three-day Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2017 in Maryland that began Monday, GovCon Executive reported. The company said Cubic Global Defense and Cubic Mission Solutions...
Weekly Roundup September 11 – September 15 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, let™s take a look at the current landscape of mergers and acquisitions in the GovCon sector. Notable M&A activity includes: CenturyLink adjusting the clo...
