Jeff Carson, an Amazon Web Services partner network ambassador, has been named vice president of public sector technology at managed cloud services provider Effectual. Carson will lead a team of Effectual solution architects responsible for developing technology modernization services designed for government customers, the company said Tuesday. His ...
Phil Kippen of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Chris Thomas of Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) said 5G enables government agencies to adopt cloud-native, distributed edge architectures and other technologies that could help them quickly come up with new services to respond to customers’ needs, improve the user experience and streamline activities. Thomas an...
Johns Hopkins University will provide technology research and development services to the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear enterprise under a potential 10-year, $530 million contract. USAF issued a $23.7 million task order for the Maryland-based university to conduct R&D efforts associated with the branch’s future Ground-Based Strategic Dete...
Sierra Lobo has secured a potential five-year, $400 million contract to support testing of rocket propulsion systems hardware and other aerospace components at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Fremont, Ohio-based company will also perform hypervelocity impact testing and flight hardware processing work and provide other technica...
Semiconductor company Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) is in discussions to acquire SAS Institute in a transaction that would give the software firm an enterprise value of $15 billion to $20 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. News of a potential deal comes as Broadcom, which has a market value of nearly $200 billion, works to...
Brian MacCarthy, a vice president and founder of the San Francisco-based tech scouting group at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), said the investment in Latent AI will enable Booz Allen to integrate the startup’s capabilities into its contracts to help meet the demand of warfighters for machine learning services at the tactical edge, the Washin...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NASA have finalized a potential $935 million contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module for the agency’s Gateway lunar space station as part of the Artemis program. Northrop said Friday it will also integrate the HALO module with the Power and Propulsion Element being developed by Maxar Technolog...
GovernmentCIO has agreed to purchase Salient CRGT from Bridge Growth Partners and Frontenac for an undisclosed sum to form a combined company that will offer information technology products and digital services meant to meet the evolving priorities and requirements of federal government clients. GovCIO CEO Jim Brabston will lead the combined entity ...
Intelligent Waves has promoted John Hammes from senior director of innovation, research and development to chief strategy officer, bringing more than two decades of information technology experience to his new position. Hammes will aim to expand the Reston, Virginia-based IT company’s work with defense, special operations and intelligence cust...
