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...
Leidos announced on Wednesday that the company was launching an internal promotion to promote and encourage employee vaccinations against COVID-19. For the promotion, the company is offering approximately one million dollars in total compensation to ten employees selected at random. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. based, full-time employees with...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun to seek proposals for the second iteration of a potential 10-year, $979.8 million contract to provide satellite communications services under the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program. The CBSP Satellite Services Contract II seeks to support the U.S. Navy’s commercial satcom requirements by enablin...
David Stagney, senior director at Pratt & Whitney, served as moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum on July 8th. The following panelist discussed embracing digital transformation and agile development featuring Preston Dunlap of the Department of the Air and Space Forc...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Greg Agnew, a partner at Acorn Growth Companies and a two-decade financial services industry veteran, has been appointed to lead the private equity firm’s mergers and acquisitions group. He will also succeed the retiring Robert Hinaman as head of Acorn’s Washington, D.C. office, the company said June 30. Agnew will oversee intermediary r...
