A Professional Services Council analysis of procurement forecasts at 69 federal agencies has shown an improvement in the overall availability and timeliness of public information that companies use to manage business planning activities for government contracting programs. PSC said Tuesday that its talks with government officials and previous assess...
Jeff Carson, an Amazon Web Services partner network ambassador, has been named vice president of public sector technology at managed cloud services provider Effectual. Carson will lead a team of Effectual solution architects responsible for developing technology modernization services designed for government customers, the company said Tuesday. His ...
Sierra Lobo has secured a potential five-year, $400 million contract to support testing of rocket propulsion systems hardware and other aerospace components at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Fremont, Ohio-based company will also perform hypervelocity impact testing and flight hardware processing work and provide other technica...
Semiconductor company Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) is in discussions to acquire SAS Institute in a transaction that would give the software firm an enterprise value of $15 billion to $20 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. News of a potential deal comes as Broadcom, which has a market value of nearly $200 billion, works to...
This past Thursday, Potomac Officers Club (POC), the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its 2021 Air Force Acquisition Forum. Check out the Potomac Officers Club’s Event Page to view on-demand the Air Force Acquisition Forum if you mis...
Gina Gallagher, a three-decade government services industry veteran, has been named chief growth officer of Falls Church, Virginia-based management consulting firm Sierra7. Gallagher will oversee the company’s business growth and strategy for delivering client services, expanding customer relationships and growing support offerings in the gove...
Robert Bukoski, a former director at consulting firm Changeis, has been appointed as the new director of business development at information technology company HighPoint Global. HighPoint said in a LinkedIn post Bukoski will leverage his over 35 years of government contracting experience to expand its reach in the federal civilian market. The newly ...
The National Institutes of Health has added 22nd Century Technologies as an awardee on a multiple-award, $3.6 billion contract for support services to the agency’s biomedical research program, according to a notice posted on SAM.gov. Five companies now hold positions on the five-year, indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery Scientific, Operati...
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...
