A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday refused to grant a preliminary injunction that the Department of Justice requested to halt Booz Allen Hamilton’s planned acquisition of EverWatch over competition-related issues, Reuters reported. Judge Catherine Blake declined to grant the injunction and her full opinion with regard to the ruling is under se...
Carolyn Nash, former senior vice president and chief financial officer of Red Hat, has been promoted to the chief operating officer position and she will continue to report directly to President and CEO Matt Hicks. Nash was appointed to the CFO role earlier this year and led efforts to grow the software provider’s finance operation,...
SilverEdge Government Solutions, a software company backed by private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired cloud services provider QVine in a deal aimed to complement SilverEdge’s software-as-a-service platform development work for defense and intelligence customers. The acquired company’s executive team will stay and ma...
Oki Mek, who served as the first chief artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as chief information security officer for the company’s federal civilian business, according to his LinkedIn announcement Wednesday. Prior to this appointment, he held a short stint as CISO ...
Elbit Systems‘ (Nasdaq: ESLT) U.S. subsidiary has received a $107 million order to deliver helmet-mounted night vision systems, spare parts, logistics support and test equipment to the U.S. Army. The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle–Binocular system is equipped with white phosphor image intensifier tubes designed to help warfighters improv...
Thales will provide an additional 4,000 two-channel handheld radios to the U.S. Army under a $100 million delivery order. The full-rate production order is the fifth award made under the Army’s Leader Radio Program for the AN/PRC-148D Improved Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radios, the company said Wednesday. This new award brings the branch’...
Reggie Brothers, former CEO of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) and two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been named an operating partner at AE Industrial Partners. “I know firsthand the value that AEI’s operational support and strategic vision adds to its portfolio companies, and I am excited to have the opportunity to leverage my technology and defense ba...
Veritas Capital has raised $10.65 billion in capital commitments for its eighth fund to further support its strategy to invest in technology companies that provide critical services and products to government and commercial customers. The New York-based government investment firm said Wednesday Fund VIII closed within a year and was oversubscribed, ...
Michael Williamson, vice president and general manager of missiles and fire control at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will assume the role of senior VP for the company’s global business development and strategy on Nov. 1. He will succeed Tim Cahill, who will transition to the role of executive VP of the company’s MFC business segment,...
Ventech Solutions has named Fred Altimont and Tony Meyer, respectively former executives at Optum Health and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), senior vice presidents of growth and business development. They will report to Ventech CEO Tonia Bleecher and aim to grow the health care technology provider’s public sector busines...
