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Brent Hansen, federal chief technology officer and director of sales engineering for cloud protection and licensing activity at Thales, has said government agencies and industry should collaborate to come up with strategies designed to protect data in the cloud or in data centers.

Phil Fraher, former chief financial officer at software vendor Zilliant, has joined satellite imagery analysis technology developer Descartes Labs as CFO. He brings three decades of industry experience to Descartes Labs and will oversee its financial, legal and accounting functions in his new position, the company said Friday.

Palantir Technologies has received a potential five-year, $143.8M blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Navy to deliver commercial-off-the-shelf software, hardware and related support services to the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has determined cost savings and received financing to support its plan to acquire cybersecurity firm Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) in an all-cash transaction including debt valued at more than $22B, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Chuck Cogar, a technology industry veteran, has joined software company OmniSci as director of federal civilian business, GovCon Wire has learned.

John Landwehr, vice president and public sector chief technology officer at Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE), has said artificial intelligence-driven applications could help government agencies deliver better citizen experience in three ways and one is through content creation. “When AI is designed and optimized with content creation in mind, powerful advances can …

Palantir Technologies has won a potential contract worth over $800M from the U.S. Army to build and deploy a battlefield intelligence platform for warfighters, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Army selected Palantir and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) in March 2018 to help address the service’s technology requirements for the Distributed …

By Light Professional IT Services has acquired government information technology services contractor Phacil for an undisclosed sum. Phacil’s “diversified IT capabilities across a wide customer base make it an excellent fit with our company, and will allow us to expand our offering to better serve our customers,” Bob Donahue, CEO and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 5, 2019 — Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has entered into an agreement with Network Designs Inc. for the latter to resell the Unisys Stealth cybersecurity software designed to support encryption and microsegmentation to secure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol-based assets, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. NDi said Thursday it will …

Workflow management software company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft for an undisclosed amount in a push to help clients automate and manage business processes with the latter company’s robotic process automation technology. Nintex said Monday it wants to offer the Foxtrot RPA platform across industries and the government. Foxtrot is designed …