TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer for IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) global business services, believes one-third of the U.S. government’s $3 trillion healthcare budget has been underutilized, Executive Gov reported Wednesday. Salzman wrote in an IBM Center for the Business of Government blog ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide a public cloud platform to support Salesforce‘s (NYSE: CRM) services as the latter seeks to expand its international infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. AWS said Wednesday Salesforce plans to migrate core services such as Sales Clo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” General Atomics has partnered separately with CAE (NYSE: CAE) and the University of North Dakota to support the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. training academy for remotely piloted aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. CAE will provide classroom, simulator and live-flight inst...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 27, 2016 ” Vencore has been certified by Virginia’s veterans services department under the Virginia Values Veterans program for the company’s commitment to build up veteran hiring and retention efforts, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it plans to add 1, 800 veterans and ...
The State Department has approved a possible $420 million foreign military sale of F/A-18 C/D support services and spares to Kuwait. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday Kuwait’s request covers F/A-18 avionics software and engine component upgrades, ground support equipment, engine and aircraft spares and r...
The State Department has approved a $260 million foreign military sale of logistics support services, support and communications equipment, personnel training and spare and repair parts for F-16 units to Oman. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the government of Oman has also requested electronic combat international se...
KEYW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has appointed Michael Alber, formerly chief financial officer at Engility (NYSE: EGL), as CFO and executive vice president. Alber will bring over three decades’ worth of corporate finance, accounting and administrative experience with federal government contractors. Bill Weber, president and CEO of KEYW,...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has agreed to purchase Itseez, a developer of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms. Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things group at Intel, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Itseez will join Intel™s IoT group to develop deep-learning-bas...
Jon Greaves, former Carpathia chief information security officer, has been named QTS Realty Trust‘s (NYSE: QTS) new chief technology officer in line with the latter’s efforts to build on its executive leadership. QTS noted Thursday that Greaves will report directly to Chad Williams, QTS chairman and CEO. Greaves held a number of po...
Nicholas Masucci, chairman of the board of directors at Louis Berger, will retire from his role at the Morristown, New Jersey-based professional services firm on July 1. Masucci, who cited health issues as the reason for his retirement, will continue to serve as a non-executive board member on a part-time basis, Louis Berger said...
