Veritas Capital has closed its purchase of Perspecta and will integrate the latter with its portfolio company Peraton to create a combined entity focused on delivering enterprise information technology and mission capability integration support to federal, state and local government agencies. Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO at Peraton and a 20...
Capt. Ben Van Buskirk, director of NavalX, will join the “Next Digital Domain- Driving UX, Data and Platform Success” panel at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event. Van Buskirk assumed his current role on March 19 and lead the organization that aims to scale non-traditional agility approaches across the Department of the Navy workforce. Previ...
Anto Tossounian of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) and Brian Fogg of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said their companies have partnered to help government agencies deliver digital services as part of efforts to modernize the customer experience. “Through our partnership, we can offer advanced cloud-based managed services for...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
Collibra and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) are treating data as a strategic asset to help government agencies analyze and gain actionable intelligence from data to meet mission objectives, advance innovation and achieve efficiency. “Collibra helps both government agencies and companies of all sizes build an internal data marketplace that makes ocean...
Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, will lead a panel discussion on cyber defense initiatives across the public and private sectors at an upcoming GovCon Wire forum. Renko has more than 35 years of professional experience with a focus on cyber investigations and security programs. His government career includes prior roles as direct...
John Zangardi, president of technology services contractor Redhorse, has joined the board of directors of cybersecurity company Forcepoint. He brings to the board more than three decades of experience as an information technology leader in the government and private sector, Forcepoint said Thursday. “I’m thrilled to join the Forcepoint Board...
Ben Cushing of Red Hat and Shane McNamee of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) said their companies have teamed up to come up with an open standards, open-source technology-based system that is built around patients and meant to help health care providers eliminate barriers to delivering medical care to patients. Cushing and McNamee discussed HealthConcours...
President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
Jenn Azzolina of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Michael Daly of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) said the two companies have teamed up to develop a technology platform to help government agencies glean insights from large volumes of data while ensuring data security using plug-and-play analytics and zero trust approach. Azzolina and Daly wrote th...
