Perspecta, the Chantilly, Virginia-based government technology services contractor, announced in January that it will be acquired by Veritas Capital for $7.1 billion in cash, or $29.35 per share. Veritas Capital, which holds approximately 14.5 percent of Perspecta’s outstanding shares, intends to combine Perspecta with Peraton, another governm...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, for her strong and notable leadership that helped the company secure IT modernization work with government customers. This represents Gilliland’s fourth consecutive Wash100 Award. In 2020, Gillilan...
Stewart Wharton, who served as director of naval and cyber accounts at Technical and Project Engineering from 2011 to 2016, has rejoined the company as vice president of operations. He will be responsible for implementing programs and supervising employees who support federal customers, TAPE said Thursday. The retired U.S. Navy captain will also ser...
Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider BlackSky and Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW) have agreed to join forces in a business combination deal worth potentially $1.5 billion, or $10 per share. Both parties expect to close the merger transaction in July and intend for the combined entity to trade under the BKSY ticke...
Tysons, Virginia-based government technology contractor Applied Insight has acquired Bridges for an undisclosed sum in a move to add cybersecurity, data analytics and cross-domain platforms as a complement to the former’s cloud offerings. Applied Insight said Wednesday it made the acquisition to also grow its intellectual property portfolio an...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman, as a 2021 Wash100 awardee for leading the company in efforts to create value through portfolio management, as well as her continued focus on growth through executive hires and contract pursuits in the federal sector. “Kathy has delivered an unpre...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Accuity have agreed to merge their operations to establish a combined entity focused on providing financial crime compliance and risk offerings for government and enterprise customers. Accuity will operate under the LexisNexis Risk Solutions organization as a result of the merger transaction, the companies said in a joi...
LinQuest will advise and assist the U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command under a potential nine-year, $200 million contract. The Department of Defense said Tuesday SpOC’s space acquisition directorate at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado received one offer for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a compet...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business will build sonar domes on U.S. Navy and allied surface combat vessels under a potential $64 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Crane, Indiana, division. Collins Aerospace said Tuesday its naval programs group will produce, install, engineer, deploy, inspect a...
Garrett Clark, practice lead of OpenShift virtualization, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure for the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said hyperconverged infrastructure and open source could help government agencies streamline the adoption of edge computing to improve mission outcomes. Clark wrote that hyperconverged infrastr...
