The General Services Administration has asked industry for comments on plans to issue a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement as part of an acquisition strategy for enterprisewide cloud services. The BPA will enable federal, state and local government agencies to purchase and implement commercial software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-servic...
Arun Gupta, a 17-year partner at investment company Columbia Capital, has joined the board of directors at LMI. His work at the Alexandria, Virginia-based venture capital firm focuses on emerging technology investments across the federal services, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure and artificial intelligence segments, LMI said Wednesday. Gupt...
Noble Supply and Logistics and PAE-IMK International have won separate indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $937.5 million combined to help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain, repair and operate U.S. military facilities within the Pacific region. DLA awarded $562.5 million to Noble for Zone 1 services and $375 million to PAE-IM...
Raghu Raghuram, who has been with VMware (NYSE: VMW) since 2003, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as CEO and board member of the Palo Alto, California-based technology company, effective June 1. “Raghu is now in position to architect VMware’s future, helping customers and partners accelerate their digital businesses in this...
Siemens‘ federal arm has received a $60 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force implement energy-efficient systems at Dyess AF Base in Texas, as part of a two-decade energy savings performance contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Siemens Government Technologies said Monday it will modernize cooling, heating, lighting and water...
ARServices has won a potential $145.5 million contract to advise the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s research and development directorate on policy, financial and programmatic matters. The Alexandria, Virginia-based company will provide advisory and assistance services to the agency in R&D areas such as chemical, biological, radiological...
The Cyber Bytes Foundation has partnered with Pavilion Data Systems to deploy data storage and transmission equipment for use by the nonprofit organization’s cybersecurity programs. Pavilion said Tuesday it will provide the HyperParallel Data Platform to the American Cyber League program, a consortium of companies at CBF’s Quantico Cyber...
U.S. technology providers have formed an alliance that calls on Congress to authorize a $50 billion federal budget for research and manufacturing investments within the semiconductor industry. The Semiconductors in America Coalition said Tuesday it aims to drive the implementation of federal policies that support chip market growth and urged lawmake...
Daniel Nord, a product leader, is set to join Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) as senior vice president and chief product officer on May 24. He will oversee a team of about 400 employees at several sites in the U.S. and Sweden as head of Maxar’s Earth intelligence product organization and help drive strategy for user...
Nicholas Speece of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and Vishal Kapur of Deloitte Consulting said government agencies need a modern data architecture that uses cloud and artificial intelligence to facilitate data management and help glean insights from large volumes of data and unstructured content. Snowflake has combined its Data Cloud and collaboration platf...
