FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) has acquired McLean, Va.-based cybersecurity instrumentation technology provider Verodin through a cash-and-stock transaction worth approximately $250M. œVerodin 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 Group™s 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...
Cloud-based talent management software provider Acendre has acquired ICS Learning Group for an undisclosed sum. œAcendre is dedicated to partnering with customers who have complex hiring and development processes that must be automated to compete for talent, Acendre CEO Mike Giuffrida said in a statement published Monday. Giuffrida noted t...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) for approximately $1.3B in cash, or $35 per share, in a move to expand high-performance computing technology offerings. HPE said Friday it expects the deal to conclude by the first quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and to shoulder one-time integration costs that...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been awarded a $2.35B contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide research, development and engineering services to Department of Defense programs. This award increases the maximum ceiling amount of APL’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to $7.11B, the Pentagon said ...
Ten companies won positions on two separate contracts worth up to $126M combined to provide architectural and engineering services to various U.S. Army civil works projects. Five companies will compete for A-E task orders under the $90M unrestricted contract and five small businesses will vie for orders under a separate $36M firm-fixed-price c...
Novetta has received ISO 9001:2015 certification through BSI Group America, an IAF/ANAB accredited certifying body. The certification validates Novetta’s commitment and ability to provide consistent high-quality products and services to its customers while always striving for improvement, the company said Friday. œWe are extremely proud t...
Carlos Hernandez, who was named interim CEO at Fluor (NYSE: FLR) on May 1, has been confirmed by the board of directors as full-time CEO of the company. Fluor said Thursday Hernandez will also join the company™s board of directors. œCarlos™ engineering and legal background, combined with his 12 years successfully serving in executive ...
