GTY Technology Holdings has purchased Ion Wave Technologies as part of continuous efforts to expand its share of the electronic procurement services market. The acquisition allows GTY to branch out to the K-12 education sector through SpedTrack, Ion Wave’s mission-critical software for managing special education programs, GTY said Thursday. GT...
A GovCIO subsidiary has won a $99.2 million contract with a five-year ordering period to engineer the U.S. Navy’s fixed broadcast system for submarines. The service branch awarded the performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Salient CRGT after a full and open competition, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. ...
Glenn Miller, former acting chief information officer at the State Department, has joined General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as senior director of IT and operations. He will work with federal customers to help them address cloud computing, cybersecurity and digital modernization requirements, GDIT said Wednesday. Mill...
David Streett, former president and chief operating officer of Valkyrie Enterprises, has been promoted to CEO of the Virginia-based technology and engineering services provider. He succeeds Valkyrie Founder Gary Lisota, who will continue to serve as vice chairman with oversight of business development and growth initiatives, the company said Wednesd...
An industry team led by Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a contract from NASA to develop and test a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing demonstrator aircraft as part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. NASA will invest $425 million in the development of the TTBW demonstrator over a seven-year period, while Boeing and its industry...
Bobby Saxon, formerly an information technology executive at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as vice president and strategic account executive for the Department of Health and Human Services. He is tasked with advancing strategic growth initiatives and safeguarding the company’s relationship with ...
A CAE business unit has won a potential $250 million contract to continue helping U.S. Army and Air Force pilots train to operate fixed-wing aircraft. The Army’s firm-fixed-price award to CAE Defense & Security builds on a training program that began in 2016 and will cover more than 600 aviators every year until 2032, the...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will provide technology and software-based services to the National Cancer Institute under a potential five-year, $161 million task order. Under the terms of the award, ICF’s Digital Services Center will help the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology develop a strategy to advance enterprise-wide mo...
Frank Sturek, former president of SkyePoint Decisions, has been named CEO at Lexington Park, Maryland-based technology and engineering services company Compendium Federal Technology. CFT said Wednesday his appointment comes nearly a week after private equity firm Boathouse Capital acquired the company. Sturek noted CFT’s work to...
The current space architecture and methodologies for developing and fielding new space technologies came about before space was a contested arena. Or, perhaps in the time between when space was first a contested environment — the Space Race of the 1950s through the 1970s — and the present day. In the modern climate, nations such...
