Tag Archives: emerging technology

The total value of unclassified information technology contracts awarded by the federal government during its 2019 fiscal year increased by 6 percent to $69B and nearly $40B of the obligated funds came from the Department of Defense, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2019 — Chris Bellios, chief operating officer of Hexagon US Federal, has said the geospatial and technical services company looks to build on its investments in technology areas over the next two years in order to expand its market and position its portfolio for the public safety, military and intelligence communities.

Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has established a fund that seeks to support research efforts focused on cybersecurity and other emerging technologies.

A new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) report shows that 33 percent of aerospace and defense executives said they expect their organizations to witness the greatest impact from artificial intelligence in the next three years compared with distributed ledger, quantum computing and other emerging technologies.

A new PwC report says the total value of mergers and acquisitions in the global aerospace and defense industry was $5.9B in the third quarter of 2018, down 49 percent from the same period last year. PwC said the number of M&A deals in the A&D sector plummeted 18 percent to 89 …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2018 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has named Amazon Web Services, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), McAfee and NetApp as partners under a new program aimed to boost innovation, program performance and technology delivery in line with clients’ mission needs, ExecutiveBiz …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2018 — The Texas Department of Information Resources has awarded Capgemini a four-year, $79 million contract to help the department expand the adoption of emerging technologies across its government and academic markets, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will enhance its Multi-Sourcing Services …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 17, 2017 — CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has partnered with Perspica to deliver an analytics tool built on artificial intelligence technology to the federal government market, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The alliance is part of CSRA’s Emerging Technology initiative and will utilize the Perspica predictive analytics technology in support of …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has entered into a five-year research and education partnership with Boston University to advance projects, fellowships, internships and other programs on open source technology, cloud, big data, machine learning and automation, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will invest up …