Daniel Nord, a product leader, is set to join Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) as senior vice president and chief product officer on May 24. He will oversee a team of about 400 employees at several sites in the U.S. and Sweden as head of Maxar’s Earth intelligence product organization and help drive strategy for user...
Codan, an Australia-based communications technology developer, has completed its acquisition of Zetron, a mission-critical integrated communications systems manufacturer headquartered in Redmond, Washington, for an undisclosed sum. Zetron will be merged with Codan Communications’ critical communications business as part of the transaction’s comp...
Digital signal processing technology licensor Ceva has entered into a $33 million cash acquisition deal for Marlborough, Massachusetts-based chip development company Intrinsix in a strategy to expand into semiconductor market verticals. Ceva said Monday it aims to create a turnkey intellectual property platform for smart sensing and wireless connect...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2021 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will use an artificial intelligence-based platform to support the Federal Transit Administration’s automation and modernization of the National Transit Database, Executive Biz reported April 28. Work is part of two five-year call orders awarded under the company’s Software Engineerin...
Four U.S. military branches have placed orders worth more than $70 million for FLIR Systems‘ (Nasdaq: FLIR) Centaur ground robots and associated equipment. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps ordered around 600 units of the medium-sized Centaur unmanned ground vehicle intended for explosive ordnance disposal missions, FLIR said Monday.&...
Jeffrey Specht, executive director of the Defense Cyber Crime Center operating under the U.S. Air Force, will join Jude Sunderbruch, executive director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and other panelists in a discussion on cybersecurity at a GovCon Wire event Wednesday. Specht leads DC3’s efforts to provide computer forensic...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has won a potential 10-year, $495 million contract to provide wide area network services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA intends to obligate a $250 million minimum guaranteed award amount through the first task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Defense Research Engineering Networ...
The Department of the Treasury’s office of foreign assets control has asked information on potential sources of commercial online tools that could be used to track transactions involving Bitcoins and other virtual currencies, Nextgov reported Friday. Tracing blockchain-based transactions will help OFAC’s office of global targeting collect attrib...
The General Services Administration plans to proceed with phased awards of the next iteration of the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services governmentwide contract to different groups of information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. GSA said Wednesday it informed offerors of the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — Amazon Web Services has designated ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) two competencies for the latter’s work to help government clients manage cloud technology and infrastructure deployments, ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of ManTech and head of the company’s innovat...
