Bret Taylor, president and chief operating officer of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) over the past two years, has been elevated to the roles of co-CEO and vice-chair of the board. He will work alongside fellow CEO Marc Benioff to lead the San Francisco-based customer relationship management software provider, the company said Tuesday. Taylor previously serv...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has closed its approximately $161.2 million cash-and-stock purchase of exactEarth, a provider of satellite data products and services to the global maritime sector. Vienna, Virginia-based Spire first announced the deal in September, which marks its first acquisition after going public in mid-August, and the company said Tue...
A By Light Professional IT Services subsidiary has won a potential eight-year, $957.74 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop and maintain a cyber training system. Cole Engineering Services Inc. will work to provide the Army a platform to train service personnel in cyber operations and provide “blue team” support under the firm-fixed-pri...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
The U.S. Navy has awarded four five-year contracts worth $1.74 billion combined to procure maintenance, repair and modernization services for non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious ships. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts covering lots 1 through 4 include scheduled docking and non-docking, continuous and eme...
Robert Lightfoot, vice president of operations at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business area, has been promoted to lead the segment as executive vice president. He will assume his new position on Jan. 1 and replace Rick Ambrose, who intends to retire in March after a more-than-20-year career at Lockheed and will support transition effor...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased radio frequency modules manufacturer Atlanta Micro as part of efforts to expand its presence in the radar, electronic warfare and weapons markets. Atlanta Micro is a Norcross, Georgia-based maker of high-performance RF modules, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and related components, Mercury Syste...
Leaders from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the departments of the Navy and the Air Force are scheduled to discuss the military’s current technology acquisition environment at a Dec. 7 panel discussion hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Douglas Packard, director of DISA’s procur...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
