A joint venture led by AECOM will provide architectural and engineering services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood and hazard risk reduction initiative under a potential five-year, $300 million contract. The Compass Production and Technical Services JV will help the agency analyze natural disaster risks in historically underse...
Leo Taddeo, formerly the chief information security officer of Cyxtera, has been named CISO of Appgate and president of its federal division. As CISO, he will lead global security operations, business continuity and crisis management functions of Appgate, which spun out of Cyxtera in 2020, the Miami-based secure access company said Monday. The newly...
In its recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Brian Frutchey, chief technology officer at BigBear.ai, to tackle the formal completion of the company’s merger with GigCapital4, the initiative for the development of cybersecurity and space capabilities, the partnerships with Redwire and Palantir Technology, as well as the robo...
Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD) has closed its purchase of Xilinx in an all-stock deal worth approximately $35 billion, creating a new high-performance and adaptive computing company with a combined portfolio of field programmable gate arrays, central processing units, adaptive SoCs and graphic processing units. The acquisition of Xilinx will e...
Engineering services provider WSP has acquired Washington, D.C.-based Climate Finance Advisors in a move to grow WSP’s presence in the U.S. climate finance and environmental services market. CFA will operate under WSP USA’s climate, resilience and sustainability group and the combined organization aims to help clients manage climate-related ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as an inductee into the 2022 Wash100 — the annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events that shape government contracting activity. This marks the second consecutive year that he’s been selected to receive the most presti...
Clara Conti, vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, recently took part in a Q&A session with GovCon Wire to discuss her background in the public sector market and how it led to her appointment with Red Hat. Conti also discussed why...
Stacy Cleveland, senior vice president of client delivery at Pyramid Systems since April 2021, will assume new leadership positions as the company’s president and chief operating officer on Wednesday. She will take over the president role from Sherry Hwang, who will become a principal of the Fairfax, Virginia-based government technology contra...
David Epperson, formerly chief information security officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has joined the public sector team of artificial intelligence cloud technology provider H2O.ai, GovCon Wire has learned. “We are very excited to have Dave join our growing Public Sector team, his hiring illustrates our commitment...
U.S. Special Operations Command can continue to order new manpack radio systems from L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) after SOCOM awarded a $297.2 million contract modification under the Next Generation Tactical Communications program. The award is for the delivery of AN/PRC-167 multichannel radios and support equipment to special operations forces...
