Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has agreed to buy cybersecurity company RiskIQ for more than $500 million in cash as part of efforts to expand its products and safeguard customers from cyberattacks, Bloomberg reported Monday. Bloomberg cited sources that say the transaction could be announced in the next few days. Founded in 2009, RiskIQ is a San...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
Will Roper, former acquisition chief at the U.S. Air Force and three-time Wash100 winner, has been named CEO of Volansi, four months after he joined the cargo drone manufacturing company’s board of directors. He succeeds Volansi founder Hannan Parvizian, who has transitioned to new roles as chief technology officer and product architect, the c...
GovernmentCIO has agreed to purchase Salient CRGT from Bridge Growth Partners and Frontenac for an undisclosed sum to form a combined company that will offer information technology products and digital services meant to meet the evolving priorities and requirements of federal government clients. GovCIO CEO Jim Brabston will lead the combined entity ...
Intelligent Waves has promoted John Hammes from senior director of innovation, research and development to chief strategy officer, bringing more than two decades of information technology experience to his new position. Hammes will aim to expand the Reston, Virginia-based IT company’s work with defense, special operations and intelligence cust...
Prachi Sukhatankar, vice president of technology solutions with Amentum, was featured on Thursday in the latest Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz. During the discussion, Sukhatankar discussed the company’s technology strategy including common challenges, business alignment, key initiatives and innovation. She also discussed how...
Leidos announced on Wednesday that the company was launching an internal promotion to promote and encourage employee vaccinations against COVID-19. For the promotion, the company is offering approximately one million dollars in total compensation to ten employees selected at random. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. based, full-time employees with...
Kaman (NYSE: KAMN) has promoted decade-long company executive James Coogan to senior vice president and chief financial officer roles, responsible for overseeing financial reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, risk management and financial planning and analysis. Coogan will retain responsibilities from his previous role as vice president of investor...
Potomac Officers Club, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum on Thursday, July 8th. The 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum presented notable and influential leaders discussing the importance of digital trans...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
