TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2017 ” Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, will talk about big data management strategies for the federal government at a MeriTalk-hosted webcast on Aug. 2, GovCon Executive reported Friday. MeriTalk reported Thursday that Davies, an inductee into Executive Mosaic™s Was...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2017 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) has collaborated with the Army Materiel Command in efforts to deploy the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform to help predict maintenance needs for the Stryker armored combat vehicles, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. GCN reported Thursday that AMC’s logistics support ...
The Federal Trade Commission has given antitrust approval for global private equity firm H.I.G. Capital™s proposed $283 million cash acquisition of government information technology services contractor NCI (Nasdaq: NCIT). FTC granted early termination of the required waiting period for the deal under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improve...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has received a potential two-year, $270.2 million contract to help the U.S. Army install and integrate legacy unique components into M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks. The Defense Department said Monday the company will also support the procurement, stocking and storage of SEPv2 legacy and SEPv3 unique componen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 31, 2017 ” Thomson Reuters has released a survey report on city, state and federal government lawyers that indicates a view toward increased workloads over the next years and added pressure due to resource constraints, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday 76 percent of the 238 polled ...
Doug Wagoner, president of services and solutions sector at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), will step down from his role at the Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor on Sept. 1. Dan Harris, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s sector operations and plann...
Weekly Roundup July 24 – July 28 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Open source intelligence (OSINT), as described in a previous Weekly Round Up column, is an incredibly powerful research methodology that is already being used by forward looking compa...
The former government services business of Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) that private equity firm Veritas Capital acquired in April has adopted the name Peraton after temporarily operating as MHVC Acquisition Corp. Peraton said Friday its new name derives from the concept that the company supports government customer missions that are crit...
Shareholders at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) and Canada-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates have separately approved the deal originally announced in February for MDA to buy the Westminster, Colorado-based Earth imaging services provider in an estimated $3.6 billion transaction. Holders of approximately 93 percent of shares in ...
CORAL SEA (July 27, 2017) An AV-8B Harrier II, assigned to the “Tomcats” of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311, takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance partnership and be a ready...
