General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems business will supply 105 mm M724A2 reduced-range training cartridges to the U.S. Army under a five-year, $49.3 million firm-fixed-price procurement contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Army Contracting Command will award individual orders that will determine contract work...
Several technology companies and industry groups wrote a letter Tuesday to President Joe Biden urging him to ensure that the federal government prioritize the procurement of commercial software and tech platforms over custom-built systems in accordance with federal acquisition rules. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), Govini, Palantir Technologies (NY...
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has issued a request for proposals for the potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for general, health care and biomedical IT services. CIO-SP4 is a governmentwide acquisition contract that has a five-...
Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, have closed the acquisition of Cubic for approximately $3 billion. Cubic said Tuesday it will remain headquartered in San Diego and stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the go-private transaction. Cubic stockholders approved an amended buyout off...
Craig Miller, a 26-year veteran of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), has been named president of the government systems business at the Carlsbad, California-based communications company. Miller succeeds Ken Peterman in the role and leads Viasat’s global defense business in delivering new platforms to meet defense requirements in tactical data links, satellit...
Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) has agreed to purchase Boston-based cybersecurity company Smokescreen Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to offer an integrated zero trust and threat defense offering. San Jose, California-based Zscaler said Tuesday it expects to close the transaction during the cloud security vendor’s 2021 fiscal year fourt...
ArchTIS and its U.S. subsidiary, Nucleus Cyber, have signed on four channel partners to offer information security technology to government contractors that want to pursue the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Canberra, Australia-based archTIS said Wednesday its newly formed U.S. federal and defense sa...
Valerie Isbell, a former Customs and Border Protection official at the Department of Homeland Security, has been named a strategic board adviser at Sev1Tech. She brings to Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology service management company almost four decades of experience in serving at DHS and the departments of Justice and Defense, Sev1Te...
Tod Weber, former chairman and CEO of Software AG’s government solutions division, has been appointed senior vice president and general manager of the federal systems group at enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3 AI (NYSE: AI). Weber brings more than 35 years of technology industry experience to his new position and will be ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $101.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide interim contractor support and assign logistics service representatives at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina where the KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft is stationed. The award exercises options on the contract for engineering, manu...
