Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
John West, a more than three-decade industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of business development and strategy at Tyto Athene. He brings to the role over 30 years of experience providing strategic consulting support to federal government customers and has held various positions at companies in the areas of business development, executi...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) was awarded a potential five-year, $109 million contract to continue assisting the U.S. Cyber Command in its development of command, control, communications, computers and capabilities. The Centreville, Virginia-headquartered defense contractor said Thursday the classified award covers work previously done as part of C4 Capabilit...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to address foreign threats to U.S. national security by authorizing the secretary of the Treasury to regulate U.S. investments in countries of concern that are involved in developing technologies considered essential for military, cyber, intelligence and surveillance operations. The EO identifies sem...
CRDF Global has acquired Development Innovations Group for an undisclosed sum to expand its security assistance and development offerings in support of customers’ missions. DIG is a privately held international development firm focused on supporting developing and transitioning economies and post-conflict and post-disaster environments in Asia, La...
Gary Sauer, a former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been named vice president of business development for advanced research and development at Eqlipse Technologies. He will lead the expansion and transition of Eqlipse’s R&D capabilities to operational programs that support defense and intelligence com...
Ben Straub, head of public sector at Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM), said government agencies looking to adopt DevSecOps approach to their software development efforts should integrate best practices for collaboration and foster tooling diversity. “Collaboration is accelerated when teams are able to use the tools that work best for them,” Stra...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will accelerate the development and delivery of artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms to support public sector customers’ missions under a strategic collaboration agreement. The two companies will co-develop generative AI tools to help customers support cross-domain applications ...
Chris Mays, staff specialist solutions architect at Red Hat, said government agencies seeking to strengthen and streamline the process of developing and delivering secure software should adopt open source technology. Mays wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com how open source fosters innovation in the software development process.. “It is ...
Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) will further develop a licensed drug against Ebola under a potential 10-year, $704 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. Development services on Ebanga under the contract are valued at $121 million and the award includes a five-year option worth $583 million for the U.S. government to pr...
