Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is working to help customers meet their mission requirements and priorities by making investments to deliver cloud capabilities to the edge in support of mission operators. Wagner wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that...
Appgate has become a publicly traded cybersecurity company after it finalized its combination with Newtown Lane Marketing that was first announced in February. The combined company will operate as Appgate and will trade on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol “NTWN” with plans to change the symbol to “APGT” and list its common...
Swedish company Saab, Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) teammate in the U.S. Air Force T-7A trainer program, has opened a factory in West Lafayette, Indiana to manufacture the aft section of the military branch’s future pilot training system. The 100,000-square-foot facility will take over the production of the Red Hawk aircraft’s aft section fr...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) will lead an industry team to pursue a potential five-year contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize a system that integrates third-party software applications to support joint air forces’ command and control operations. The Air Operations Center – Weapons System enables the service to perform intelligence, surveillance a...
Robert Geckle, formerly chief operating officer and general counsel at Airbus’ U.S. business arm, has been elevated to the roles of president and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Defense News reported Thursday. The new chief executive previously held a variety of legal and compliance roles at its predecessor company. According to his Li...
Geospark Analytics has received a four-year contract to help the State Department expand the use of a company-built artificial intelligence-based platform for assessing global threats and risks. The department intends to deploy the Hyperion technology to monitor and forecast emerging events in real time as part of diplomatic security missions worldw...
Gary Newgaard, former vice president at data storage hardware and software developer Pure Storage, has joined Sumo Logic to serve as general manager of the cloud-based machine data analytics company’s public sector, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He brings to his new role his decades-long experience in working at several government-focused...
Comcast Government Services has acquired federal telecommunications provider Defined Technologies from Tysons, Virginia-based managed services company MicroTech for an undisclosed sum. Defined Technologies acts as a prime contractor on the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement v...
Kevin Iwersen, formerly the chief information officer of Idaho’s judicial branch, has been appointed to the same position at public sector software provider Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL). He will be part of Tyler’s corporate operations team and will succeed Matt Bieri, who is due to retire early next year, the company said Tuesday. In h...
The board of directors of IBM (NYSE: IBM) has approved the planned separation of its managed infrastructure services business to form an independent public company that will operate as Kyndryl. IBM said Tuesday it will distribute 80.1 percent of Kyndryl’s outstanding shares to IBM stockholders on a pro rata basis to help carry out the...
