TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2019 ” A subsidiary of CAE (NYSE: CAE) received a contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to work on rapid prototyping and simulation interoperability for the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Common Database, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. CAE USA said Wednesday its Mission Solutions Inc. business will ai...
President Donald Trump intends to nominate Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to serve as Pentagon chief on a full-time basis, The New York Times reported Thursday. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, announced the president’s intention in a tweet posted Thursday. “If confirmed by the Senate, I will con...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a potential 10-year, $106M contract to help the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Media Exploitation Center manage paper documents and electronic media. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers document and media management, program support and related intel...
Richard Hill, a board member at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) since January, has been named interim president and CEO of the Mountain View, Calif.-based cybersecurity company. He replaces Greg Clark, who stepped down after three years at the helm, as the company begins its search for a full-time CEO, Symantec said Thursday. Hill has chaired Marvell...
Michael Shields, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as senior vice president of advanced technology for mission adoption. He will oversee platforms development and strategic planning efforts to integrate technologies in sensors, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and other areas with warf...
Envistacom has acquired Frederick, Md.-based virtualization technology provider Fast Fit Technologies in a move to offer virtualized communications waveform and data analytics applications to the Department of Defense. Atlanta-based Envistacom said Tuesday it aims to provide a common network infrastructure designed to host virtualized waveform appli...
Andrew Borene, a certified information systems security professional and former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive, has been appointed senior director of the federal national security group at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). He will lead a team that offers integrated technology platforms and services meant to help government clients defend against cyber thre...
Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) has received a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence-based computing machine that can offer analytics and machine learning for national security, energy, healthcare and manufacturing applications. DOE said Tuesday it expects the “Frontier” supercomputer to roll ou...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced on Tuesday that the company is acquiring all Lumen™s assets, an integrated data platform owned by the Numerica Corporation. “Over the last seven years, we have successfully developed and commercialized the Lumen product line,” said Jeff Poore, Numerica Corporation president. “We are excited ...
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International (ACT 1) announced on Tuesday that the Virginia Chamber of Commerce recognized ACT I as one of the fifty fastest growing companies in Virginia in 2019 with the 24th position on the œFantastic 50 list. œIt is an honor for ACT I to be recognized by the Virginia Chamber of...
