A Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) business unit has won a potential $75.8 million Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 contract to help Department of Defense mission partners connect to DOD’s global military information network. Comcast’s government services group will replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits with new ethernet connections in t...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received a five-year, $600.2 million contract to provide support to the U.S. Army’s next generation of armored vehicles meant for integration with the Armored Brigade Combat Team in the future. The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, along with the M113 family of vehicles that AMPV is intended to r...
ExecutiveBiz released its latest Executive Spotlight on Wednesday with Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient. During the interview, Wagner shed some light on his team’s efforts to drive new information technology solutions for federal customers, data processing for military service branches, the greatest...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has appointed Carlos Sabater, retired Deloitte & Touche senior global partner, and Vincent Stewart, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, to its board of directors. Lester Lyles, chairman of the KBR board, said in a statement published Wednesday the new appointees’ knowledge and experience in civilian, defense...
Precise Software Solutions has won a five-year, $75 million contract to help the Food and Drug Administration manage web content and internal communication needed for the delivery of public health resources. Rockville, Maryland-based Precise said Wednesday it will work with Salient CRGT to provide support services to the intranet internet branch und...
Planet Labs, an Earth imagery provider to the government and business sectors, has agreed to join forces with special acquisition purpose company dMY Technology Group (NYSE: DMYQ) in a merger deal that would take the satellite operator public and give it a post-transaction equity value of $2.8 billion. San Franciso-based Planet said Wednesday it mai...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to buy Alion Science and Technology from Veritas Capital for approximately $1.65 billion in cash as part of a push to expand its technical capabilities and portfolio of national security platforms. HII said Tuesday it expects the transaction to conclude in the second half of 2021 and help...
The Department of Defense decided to end the prolonged court battle over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program by dropping the JEDI cloud contract and announced plans to launch a new procurement effort to meet its cloud computing requirements. DOD said Tuesday the decision was due to a more mature cloud conversancy, industry advancemen...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has expanded its portfolio of electronic warfare, military information and cyber products following the completion of a $203 million accretive deal to acquire BlackHorse Solutions. BlackHorse brings technologies designed to help defense and intelligence customers integrate EW, information and cyber operations, Parsons said Tuesda...
