Geospark Analytics has received a four-year contract to help the State Department expand the use of a company-built artificial intelligence-based platform for assessing global threats and risks. The department intends to deploy the Hyperion technology to monitor and forecast emerging events in real time as part of diplomatic security missions worldw...
Comcast Government Services has acquired federal telecommunications provider Defined Technologies from Tysons, Virginia-based managed services company MicroTech for an undisclosed sum. Defined Technologies acts as a prime contractor on the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement v...
Kevin Iwersen, formerly the chief information officer of Idaho’s judicial branch, has been appointed to the same position at public sector software provider Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL). He will be part of Tyler’s corporate operations team and will succeed Matt Bieri, who is due to retire early next year, the company said Tuesday. In h...
The board of directors of IBM (NYSE: IBM) has approved the planned separation of its managed infrastructure services business to form an independent public company that will operate as Kyndryl. IBM said Tuesday it will distribute 80.1 percent of Kyndryl’s outstanding shares to IBM stockholders on a pro rata basis to help carry out the...
Beth Meagher, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, has been promoted to federal health sector leader of the professional services company, according to her recent post on LinkedIn. She brings more than two decades of industry experience to her new role within Deloitte Consulting’s government and public services business. Meagher joined the firm...
Lloyd Howell, chief financial officer at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), said the company is looking to pursue more tuck-in acquisitions to increase its revenue and further advance growth initiatives, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Booz Allen executives said the McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm plans to spend approximately $4 billio...
A Cerberus Capital Management affiliate has purchased Herndon, Virginia-based information technology contractor NetCentrics for an undisclosed sum to help drive the latter’s financial and expansion goals. NetCentrics received a capital investment from the New York City-based private equity firm in connection with the deal and appointed 25-year...
Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DevSecOps initiative. MFGS’ Fortify leverages zero trust, automated testing and code scanning capabilities t...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has acquired Advanced Solutions Inc., a Colorado-based space software company, as part of efforts to further build up its space systems business. Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday it paid $40 million for ASI and will potentially make an additional payment of $5.5 million performance earnout based on r...
David Boland, senior director of product marketing at Wasabi Technologies, said cloud-based storage could enable government agencies to drive innovation by allowing their storage administrators to shift their focus from maintaining platforms on-site to doing more complex tasks. Boland wrote that cloud-based storage is more secure than on-pre...
