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  • Carlyle Closes ManTech Buy; Kevin Phillips Quoted
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    Carlyle Closes ManTech Buy; Kevin Phillips Quoted

    Global investment firm Carlyle completed its acquisition of ManTech International and took the government services contractor private through an all-cash transaction worth approximately $4.2 billion. ManTech said Wednesday it stopped trading on Nasdaq following the completion of the deal and that it will continue to operate through its Herndon, Virginia, headquarters. Stockholders at ManTech approved […] More

  • Data Services Provider Illuminate to Hire 100-Plus Employees; Gregg Melanson Quoted
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    Data Services Provider Illuminate to Hire 100-Plus Employees; Gregg Melanson Quoted

    Illuminate, a data collection and analysis services provider to the government sector, is opening more than 100 job vacancies across the company for application development and intelligence analysis professionals. The company said Tuesday it offers a competitive pay package, a Safe Harbor 401(k) plan and programs meant to help employees manage their quality of life […] More

  • Northrop, Cubic Showcase Gateway System for Defense Tech Connectivity
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    Northrop, Cubic Showcase Gateway System for Defense Tech Connectivity

    Northrop Grumman and Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions division have jointly demonstrated a high-capacity backbone platform intended to support mission systems interoperability and data connectivity in all defense domains. The companies presented during a cross-industry event the potential applications of HCB technology and an open-architecture gateway system to the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Barry Broadus, Chief Financial Officer of ICF
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    Executive Spotlight: Barry Broadus, Chief Financial Officer of ICF

    Barry Broadus, chief financial officer of ICF, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about joining the company as its CFO, his strategic growth goals and how recent acquisitions and partnerships have helped drive innovation and mission goals in the federal sector during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with Barry Broadus below. ExecutiveBiz: Congrats on your […] More

  • Automation Company RoviSys Creates Federal Unit; Graham Staples Quoted
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    Automation Company RoviSys Creates Federal Unit; Graham Staples Quoted

    RoviSys has established a business unit that will focus on helping federal customers automate government processes and manage data assets. The company said Tuesday RoviSys Federal Solutions employs a team of automation, project management and software engineering professionals to support agencies across various program areas such as cybersecurity. Graham Staples, who formerly led the company’s power and energy division, […] More

  • Boeing Opens Factory for Composite Military Aircraft Parts; Ted Colbert Quoted
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    Boeing Opens Factory for Composite Military Aircraft Parts; Ted Colbert Quoted

    Boeing has completed the construction of a Mesa, Arizona, facility to make composite aircraft components for military customers. The company said Tuesday its research and development division, Phantom Works, will operate the 155,000-square-foot Advanced Composite Fabrication Center beginning in the fall. ACFC personnel will use advanced manufacturing and digital engineering methods in support of new combat […] More

  • NetImpact-Dark Wolf Team to Help Air Force Transition to Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Platform
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    NetImpact-Dark Wolf Team to Help Air Force Transition to Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Platform

    A partnership between NetImpact Strategies and Dark Wolf Solutions has received a contract to migrate the Department of the Air Force’s enterprise information technology management system to ServiceNow‘s cloud platform.  NetImpact said Tuesday it will lead the development and implementation of replacement software for the IT Investment Portfolio Suite and help the DAF chief information officer […] More

  • Iron Bow Gets Army ATO Accreditation for AttackIQ Threat Emulation Platform
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    Iron Bow Gets Army ATO Accreditation for AttackIQ Threat Emulation Platform

    Iron Bow Technologies has received an Assess Only Authority to Operate designation from the U.S. Army for AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform. The three-year Assess Only ATO will enable the service to use AttackIQ’s breach and attack simulation platform to come up with a more strategic posture to protect from cyberthreats its mission-critical assets used to […] More

  • Empower AI Seeks to Accelerate Federal Digital Transformation With AI Product Set; Paul Dillahay Quoted
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    Empower AI Seeks to Accelerate Federal Digital Transformation With AI Product Set; Paul Dillahay Quoted

    Empower AI has introduced a set of artificial intelligence platforms designed to help federal technology professionals manage code development and other digital transformation efforts. The product suite, dubbed Empower AI Develops, uses machine learning, natural language processing, hyperautomation and proprietary algorithms to speed up code analysis and development and detect vulnerabilities in their information technology […] More

  • Google, NIST Sign Chip R&D Cooperation Agreement; Laurie Locascio Quoted
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    Google, NIST Sign Chip R&D Cooperation Agreement; Laurie Locascio Quoted

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has teamed up with Google to create a new suite of chips designed to help researchers and technology startups measure the performance of artificial intelligence memory devices. Under a cooperative research and development agreement, Google will shoulder the initial cost of constructing and operating a production facility while […] More

  • AWS to Mentor Startups Through Infrastructure-Focused Accelerator
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    AWS to Mentor Startups Through Infrastructure-Focused Accelerator

    Amazon Web Services will offer cloud education and mentorship for startup companies that want to develop infrastructure management tools through the third iteration of the Sustainable Cities Accelerator program. Jeffrey Kratz, general manager of AWS’ worldwide public sector channels and alliances, wrote in a blog post published Monday the company teamed up with venture development […] More