U.S. Navy Adm. Michael Gilday formally succeeded Adm. John Richardson, two-time Wash100 Award recipient, as chief of naval operations during a ceremony that took place Thursday in Washington. "Gilday is a true cutting edge warfighter, a surface warrior who, by virtue of his leadership at 10th Fleet, fully appreciates the challenges we fac...
Anne Hughes, a more than 30-year health care industry veteran, has been named vice president of business development at Cognosante's civilian health unit, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. Cognosante is headquartered in Falls Church, Va., and offers technology and business process outsourcing services to government health organizations....
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK) for about $2.1B....
Diversified Maintenance Systems has won a potential five-year, $90M contract to provide specialty trade construction services at one U.S. Marine Corps installation and three naval bases located in California....
Kevin Samuelson, formerly chief financial officer of Infor, has succeeded Charles Phillips as CEO of the business cloud software provider. Phillips has held the CEO post over the past nine years and will transition to a new role as chairman of the firm's board of directors, Infor said Wednesday....
SAP National Security Services has received approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's joint authorization board to offer a payroll engine with a cloud-based human capital management platform. FEDRAMP JAB granted the provisional authorization to operate for the company to include its Employee Central Payroll technolo...
General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential $325.4M contract from the Department of Homeland Security to support the emergency communications division within DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to a FedBizOpps notice....
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a one-year, $101.1M contract modification to continue to provide logistics support for government-owned, fixed-wing aircraft....
Raytheon's (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has secured a $190.5M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain the remaining materials needed to produce lots 1 through 3 of Block 2 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile system....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded BAE Systems a contract to integrate Block 4 modifications into the F-35 aircraft’s electronic warfare and countermeasures systems....
