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...
The State Department has approved Canada’s request to buy from the U.S. government the Aegis Combat System built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and associated equipment through a potential $1.7 billion foreign military sales deal. Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit will be the primary contractor on the proposed sale of four Aegis...
Codan, an Australia-based communications technology developer, has completed its acquisition of Zetron, a mission-critical integrated communications systems manufacturer headquartered in Redmond, Washington, for an undisclosed sum. Zetron will be merged with Codan Communications’ critical communications business as part of the transaction’s comp...
Digital signal processing technology licensor Ceva has entered into a $33 million cash acquisition deal for Marlborough, Massachusetts-based chip development company Intrinsix in a strategy to expand into semiconductor market verticals. Ceva said Monday it aims to create a turnkey intellectual property platform for smart sensing and wireless connect...
