
Paul Puckett, chief technology officer for federal at Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL), has said the development of the U.S. Air Force’s tanker refueling application indicated that the service can deploy scalable software using lean methodologies. “That approach involves combining agile practices with pair programming, test-driven development and u...
BP Products North America, Shell and Vitol have won separate one-year, fixed-price contracts worth $354.3M combined to deliver fuel products to the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA received 18 responses for the procurement effort and will finance orders with fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Each ...
FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) has acquired McLean, Va.-based cybersecurity instrumentation technology provider Verodin through a cash-and-stock transaction worth approximately $250M. Verodin gives us the ability to automate security effectiveness testing using the sophisticated attacks we spend hundreds of thousands of hours responding to, and provid...
Serco Groups North American subsidiary has agreed to acquire the naval systems business unit of Alion Science and Technology for $225M in a push to expand its footprint in the naval modernization, sustainment and support services market. Serco Inc. said Thursday it expects the transaction to be finalized in the second half of this year,...
A McAleese & Associates report says the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding programs would receive $21.7B under the $690B fiscal 2020 defense funding bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, listed in the report some of the fully funded shipbuil...
AECOM announced on Tuesday that the company secured a five-year, $122.7 million contract under the U.S. General Services Administration, One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS). The contract was awarded to AECOM by the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). This Cost Plus Award Fee contract is the first AECOM wi...