Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), will serve as chair of the board of directors and succeed David Rowland, who will step down from the board and retire from the company on Sept. 1. Sweet’s appointment to assume the additional role of board chair comes two years after she was named as Accenture’s chief...
Versar, a program management business supporting federal government and commercial clients and a portfolio company of private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management, has purchased BayFirst Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of portfolio expansion initiative across the information technology and intelligence service areas. “We look ...
Comcast Government Services, doing business as Comcast Business, has won a potential 10-year, $102.8 million contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency replace legacy circuits and establish connectivity with mission partners via ethernet. The company will use Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 3 to connect external mission partners to t...
An Akima subsidiary has received a potential $23.9 million to help the U.S. Special Operations Command deploy and maintain a system for managing assets. Under the five-year contract, Sunik will deploy four Defense Accountability Property System modules for special operations forces, Akima said Wednesday. “DPAS plays a significant role in the f...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will design, develop and operate the spacecraft for two missions NASA selected to explore Venus as part of the agency’s Discovery Program. The space agency expects the two missions – Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus or DAVINCI+ and Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSA...
Criterion Systems Controller Rick Williams and Corionna Canada, the company’s director of contracts and purchasing, have been promoted to vice president roles. Both executives have helped the Vienna, Virginia-based company mature its financial, contracting and procurement operations, Steve Mast, executive VP and chief financial officer of Crit...
Keith Nakasone, former deputy assistant commissioner of acquisition management within the information technology office at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will join VMware (NYSE: VMW) in mid-June as a federal strategist, FedScoop reported Wednesday. He brings 32 years of government service experience to his n...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has agreed to acquire analytics company Novetta from global investment firm The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its artificial intelligence, cloud and cyber capabilities in support of missions of defense, intelligence and law enforcement agency clients. Acc...
Donnie Scott, a two-decade public security and information technology industry veteran, has been named CEO of Identity and Security North America at IDEMIA. He will directly report to Pierre Barrial, president and CEO of IDEMIA Group, as he manages all businesses related to the company’s I&S North America segment, the company said Tuesday. Sco...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Learjet, a Bombardier subsidiary, a $464.8 million contract to procure an aircraft equipped with technology for airborne communications relay. The Wichita, Kansas-based company will deliver a maximum of six Bombardier Global 6000 jets that are fitted with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system, the Departm...
