Christopher Radich, regional vice president of public sector digital strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies seeking to reduce their dependence on custom code and improve customer service should develop and implement a multicloud strategy that includes a combination of software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and...
Positioning, navigation and timing technology provider Orolia has agreed to acquire Granada, Spain-based Seven Solutions in a move to expand the former’s product portfolio for defense, telecommunications, data center, smart grid and aerospace applications. Orolio said Monday it expects to close the transaction before the end of 2021 and pursue...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Steve Selfridge, president of Government Services at Day & Zimmermann, about company growth strategies, contract wins, executive movements and culture challenges as well as focus areas for D&Z’s tech capabilities. Here’s an excerpt from the interview with Selfridge...
Viasat has been selected to help the Department of Defense assess weapon system architectures as part of a cybersecurity pilot program that will employ an analytics-based automation process. Under a DOD contract, Viasat will work to identify vulnerabilities in key weapon components through cyber and software-defined radio threat assessments, the com...
A Deltek analysis shows that 79 percent of the total value of the top 10 federal professional services opportunities in fiscal year 2022 fall under follow-ons to existing contracts and that 90 percent of those opportunities in FY 2022 are expected to be single-award contracts, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for Internationa...
Mirion Technologies, a radiation detection and measurement platforms provider, is expected to start trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange after it completed its merger with blank check company GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II (NYSE: GSAH) that was first announced in June. Shareholders at GS Acquisition approved the combination Tuesday and A...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a five-year, $154.1 million contract to BAE Systems to integrate multiple systems into vehicles, command facilities, fixed base terminals, transit cases, mobile communications equipment and intelligence platforms. BAE’s technology solutions and services business will support command, control, communications, computer ...
Shareholders at GS Acquisition Holdings (NYSE: GSAH) voted at a special meeting Tuesday to approve the company’s merger with Mirion Technologies, a provider of anti-radiation equipment to the defense sector. The two companies have set the transaction’s closure date for Wednesday, according to a joint statement. The combined entity will a...
Patrick Thomas, cloud technologist at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies should come up with a more strategic approach to fielding and funding multicloud environments. “Beyond the total cost of ownership, they need to reevaluate how they pay for cloud products and services” by choosing between spending as a capital expe...
A BAE Systems business unit has secured a $137.12 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to engineer command, control, communications, computer, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The company’s technology solutions and services group will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraf...
