Dulles, Virginia-based software company Unison has acquired Plan4 Healthcare, whose business planning and budget management platform is being used at the Veterans Health Administration’s primary medical centers and facilities. Unison said Wednesday it looks to add the 4Cast software-as-a-service offering to the company’s Planning, Budget...
Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has formed an advisory council to provide public sector organizations with insights in support of their cybersecurity efforts, and appointed Gary Locke, former secretary of the Department of Commerce, as its chairperson. The Public Sector Advisory Council will help local governments and other public institutions address cyber...
Amentum has named leaders who will lead the three businesses within the national security group that the company is forming as part of a restructuring move by CEO John Heller, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient who took the helm of the Germantown, Maryland-based defense contractor in late March, Defense Daily reported Monday. “Today, I am...
Valiant Integrated Services has won a $255 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide international militaries with F-16 aircraft maintenance and pilot training support over a 10-year period. The Foreign Military Sales deal is expected to help U.S. partner-nation air forces to achieve operational capability, the Department of Defense said T...
Vishal Deshpande, a two-decade federal information technology market veteran, has joined Unissant as chief data analytics officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of the company’s technical vision, roadmap and strategy related to data and advanced analytics and help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine ...
The Department of Defense and the National Spectrum Consortium have asked industry and academia for insights, ideas and other feedback through a call for whitepapers as part of efforts to speed up the development, production and testing of 5G Open Radio Access Network technologies in the U.S. Virtualization and open architecture development has been...
Suzanne Mathew, chief financial officer of Yorktown Systems Group, has assumed additional responsibilities as president of the Huntsville, Alabama-based mission support and training services provider. She will bring to the role over 25 years of GovCon experience as Yorktown pursues growth initiatives, including a more than twofold increase in revenu...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace subsidiary and Axiom Space have won positions on a potential 12-year, $3.5 billion contract to develop next-generation spacesuits that would enable NASA astronauts to perform spacewalks outside the International Space Station and explore the lunar surface as part of Artemis missions. NASA said T...
Reston Virginia-based information technology company Electrosoft acquired managed security services provider Achilles Shield in a move to grow the former’s cybersecurity portfolio for the federal civilian and defense sectors. Electrosoft said Wednesday its founder and CEO Sarbari Gupta will also hold the chief executive role at the acquired en...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will deliver the CH-47F Chinook aircraft to the German armed forces for its heavy-lift helicopter program, with the potential Foreign Military Sales deal reportedly reaching $4.29 billion in estimated value. The defense company said Wednesday it was selected to provide Germany with the NATO-interoperable Chinook aircraft to meet it...
