Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has wrapped up its acquisition of Slack Technologies for approximately $27.7 billion in a transaction that will create a single digital platform for enterprise communications and collaboration. “Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver custo...
Jason Porter, president of AT&T’s public sector and FirstNet, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. During the discussion with ExecutiveBiz, Porter touched on his recent transition into his role with FirstNet as well as the impact of a recent VA modernization task order win, the company&#...
John Howanitz, a 39-year Bechtel veteran, has been promoted to president of the company’s nuclear, security and environmental business in a move that takes effect Sept. 1. He will succeed Barbara Rusinko, who has led the NS&E organization over the past five years and is due to retire from the company in October after nearly...
The General Services Administration’s 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support has received the “best-in-class” status for meeting the Office of Management and Budget’s performance standard for category management. “The 8(a) STARS GWAC program r...
Tracker Capital Management has acquired a controlling interest in Accion Systems, a Boston-based startup developing ionic liquid electrospray propulsion technology designed to power satellites and space vehicles. Accion said Wednesday it has also closed on a $42 million Series C funding round that was led by a Tracker Capital affiliate and gave the ...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will continue to provide systems engineering and integration services in support of space launch operations under a potential $475.5 million contract with the U.S. Space Force. The company will support the National Security Space Launch program and provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certif...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will supply additional missile launcher systems for installation on the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Constellation-class frigates under a four-year, $231.4 million contract modification. The service branch procured 70 more MK41 Vertical Launching System modules along with ancillary equipment from c...
Fearless, a Baltimore, Maryland-based digital services firm, has won a potential five-year, $120 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services to support modernization efforts across the government, Technical.ly reported Tuesday. The software firm will provide TTS offices and i...
Ronda Sanborn, former director of program operations at System High Corp., has been promoted as vice president of special programs at the Chantilly Virginia-based protection and security engineering services provider. She will oversee System High’s special access program portfolio and brings more than three decades of public and private sector...
Washington, D.C.-based technology company Babel Street has appointed former senior government officials Robert Ashley, David Glaser, Ellen McCarthy and Harry Wetherbee to its newly formed board of advisers. They will advise Babel Street’s leadership team on approaches to help customers apply its artificial intelligence-based analytics platform...
