Syam Nair, a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief technology officer at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) in a move that takes effect May 24. Zscaler said Tuesday that Nair will serve as executive vice president for research and development in addition to CTO. The 25-year technology industry veteran...
Software as a service company Exiger has acquired supply chain risk management platform vendor Ion Channel. Exiger said Tuesday that it will add the acquired company’s technology offering to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified SaaS platform that contains information on 16.8 million unique supply chains. Before the acq...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw higher revenue from domestic and international government operations in the first quarter of 2023 on the back of significant contract wins during the three-month period. The data analytics technology provider saw its overall January-March government sales jump 20 percent year over year to $289 million, ac...
Ron Ravelo, a retired U.S. Navy captain and a senior director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) since September 2021, has taken on a new role as vice president of programs for SAIC’s Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and U.S. Marine Corps accounts. In a LinkedIn post, Ravelo shared that his appointment comes six...
Kathy Lueders, former associate administrator of NASA’s space operations mission directorate, has joined SpaceX as general manager with oversight of the Starship rocket program, CNBC reported Monday. She will directly report to Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a four-time Wash100 awardee, and work through th...
Defense and aerospace components maker Heico (NYSE: HEI) has agreed to acquire Wencor Group from the latter’s management and private equity firm Warburg Pincus in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.05 billion. Heico said Monday it will pay $1.9 billion in cash and $150 million in Class A common stock for the Peachtree City, Georgia-headquarter...
Space infrastructure developer Redwire (NYSE: RDW) reported a 75.3 percent year-on-year increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, driven in part by its contributions to commercial space launches during the period. Redwire executives held a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, highlighting $57.6 million in sales and $4.3 million in positive...
The federal government relies on healthcare services to fulfill various missions for the nation. Get to know the top healthcare and medical government contractors in 2023. Every year, the federal government allocates a significant portion of its budget to health care, aiming to obtain high-quality pharmaceuticals, therapies, and preven...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Noble Supply and Logistics a $562.5 million contract modification to continue to provide maintenance, repair and operation support at various U.S. military facilities overseas. The modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded four-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract f...
Bronwyn Haley, a former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, has been appointed vice president for the Department of Justice sector technical services contractor Steampunk. She will lead the segment under Steampunk’s homeland, commerce and justice division and brings decades of client relationships, organizational risk management and...
