Accenture reported on Monday that the IT modernization of U.S. federal agencies has accelerated in 2018, but still faces significant challenges. The State of Federal IT 2018 report revealed that only 47 percent of IT decisionmakers believe their efforts contributed to mission agility. In addition, only 39 percent transform mission and business requi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 20, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ (Nasdaq: HDP) U.S. public sector business, has said enterprise open source tools such as Apache NiFi and Hadoop work to support emergency and disaster response operations by deriving actionable intelligence from data, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 3....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 20, 2018 ” David Kushner, vice president of federal sales at ViON, has said the company is looking to leverage the data center-as-a-service model as an end-to-end strategy for data management amid efforts by customers to address different requirements for different workloads. Kushner told ExecutiveBiz in an interview...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 20, 2018 ” Amazon Web Services has designated Carahsoft Technology as an authorized distributor of AWS products and services to the government in a move that builds on their current reseller agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Carahsoft said Tuesday its reseller and managed services provider partners can...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 19, 2018 ” Gavin Greene, vice president of business development at NT Concepts, has said the company will work in 2019 to build on its capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning to support customer missions, particularly in the field of national security. Greene told ExecutiveBiz in an interview pub...
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) has agreed to purchase StandardAero from Veritas Capital for an undisclosed sum. The Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm said Tuesday it expects to close the deal by the end of the first quarter of calendar year 2019, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based St...
A joint venture of American Systems and Millennium Engineering and Integration will compete for engineering and technical support service task orders under NASA™s potential eight-year, $264M contract. New Horizons Aeronautics will deliver services in support of the agency™s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., American Syst...
Imaging satellite operator Planet has agreed to buy geospatial data management software vendor Boundless Spatial for an undisclosed sum to expand the former’s business in the public sector and commercial agriculture markets. San Francisco-based Planet said Tuesday it aims to increase utilization of its imager...
President Donald Trump is expected this week to order the creation of a new combatant command that would focus on space, CNN reported Monday. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Tuesday the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Pentagon this week to talk about the administration™s plan for a new space force....
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) is close to finalizing a deal worth more than $5B to buy StandardAero from Veritas Capital, Reuters reported Tuesday. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based StandardAero offers aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul support services to clients in military, general aviation and commercial sectors. Sources told Reuters the...
