Cybersecurity platforms provider Cycurion has agreed to merge with blank check company Western Acquisition Ventures (Nasdaq: WAVS) in a transaction that would take the former public and give the combined entity a total pro forma equity value of about $271.63 million. The boards of directors of Cycurion and Western have unanimously approved the deal ...
As the cloud increasingly dominates both public and private sector operations, its impact on procurement has become a topic of focus in recent years. According to experts in the field, migrating to the cloud offers numerous benefits across process burdens, costs and timing. Michael Tocci, president of Paperless Innovations, elaborated on the perks o...
The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
John Abbot, an executive with over three decades of experience, has joined Dataminr to serve as chief financial officer responsible for the artificial intelligence company’s accounting, finance, legal and facilities functions. Dataminr said Thursday Abbot previously worked as CFO of security and software company Datto, where he provided suppor...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its federal market organization with the appointment of Terry Halvorsen and Mark Johnson as vice president of federal client development and VP of federal technology sales, respectively. Both executives will work to support IBM’s vision to facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud across the f...
Rich Aves, executive vice president of business development for the defense and intelligence sector at Parsons, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He talked about how can artificial intelligence be used to address some of the biggest challenges in defense and intelligence sectors; and Parsons’ recent growt...
Space Systems Command has released a new request for proposals for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 contract to expand the pool of vendors that could provide suborbital launch support for payloads and flight hardware and perform technical and concept analyses to facilitate the launch of space assets in support of research and development programs. Inte...
NASA has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could meet the requirements of the third iteration of the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract. The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston expects SMAEC III to be a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of safety mis...
Lauren Ayers, a federal and industry acquisition and procurement executive, has joined the Professional Services Council as vice president of defense and intelligence. She oversees PSC’s policy, education and advocacy efforts in support of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community agencies. Ayers most recently worked at the Department o...
Financial services company Baird hosted its annual Government & Defense Conference on Thursday, bringing together industry leaders from across the federal sector to discuss the state of the government contracting industry, the impacts of recent sociopolitical events on the economic landscape and business strategies for the future. Bair...
