Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from a Government Accountability Office study on the U.S. Navy’s cost estimate for the Columbia-class submarine acquisition program. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, wrote in the report that GAO challenged the technological ma...
Twist Bioscience Corporation (TWST) became the first to implement Battelle™s ThreatSEQ web service DNA screening platform to detect and characterize sequences of concern in genomic data, supplementing its internal biosecurity efforts, TWST announced on Tuesday. œWe have spent decades working with and characterizing biothreats to support gl...
Saurabh Verma and Cristina Miller of Acumen Solutions have said government agencies should adopt platform as a service to quickly develop and deploy mission-impacting applications designed to improve the citizen experience. Verma and Miller wrote in a joint article that PaaS offers agencies more time to focus on innovation since the technology provi...
Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT) agreed to acquire the night vision business of Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) for approximately $350M. Harris said Friday the transaction is conditioned upon completion of its proposed merger with L3 Technologies (LLL) and customary closing conditions that include a receipt of all regulatory approvals. Stockholders ...
Stockholders at L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) approved during their respective meetings Thursday the proposals needed to close the proposed merger of the companies. œThis vote represents a key milestone in our merger process, Christopher Kubasik, L3 chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement published Thursday. œ...
Applied Insight announced on Thursday that it is moving its headquarters from Ashburn, Va. to Tysons Corner, Va. and made changes to strengthen its leadership team. Mehdi Cherqaoui will serve as chief financial officer in a company that focuses on analytics, cloud and mission IT for federal government clients. He joined the company this month...
The race is on to reach the top of the Wash100 rankings before voting ends on April 30th. With the deadline drawing near, there have been some surprises over the last two weeks as the GovCon community continues to select their favorite executives. A shake-up occurred in the rankings to keep Wash100 voting red hot. ...
Arlington Capital Partners announced its strategic investment in Octo Consulting Group on Thursday. Octo develops solutions for federal government clients in health care, national security, civilian and defense agencies. The company™s expertise with Agile software development, UI/UX, cloud, infrastructure, blockchain and other emerging te...
ABS Capital Partners closed a $23 million Series A funding round for deepwatch, a leading provider of intelligence-driven managed security services. deepwatch will accelerate research and development for its machine learning security analytics platform and market expansion. œCybersecurity leaders immediately recognize deepwatch™s truly rev...
Jay Hadley, a more than 22-year information technology services veteran, returned to CGI (NYSE: GIB) as vice president of consulting services, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday. He served as director of CGI’s environmental, health and safety IT practice from 2004 to 2006. Hadley most recently led the civilian business unit of DRT Strategies...
