Cloudera appoints new government business head

Cloudera, the Silicon Valley-based data engineering software outfit, hires longtime public sector veteran Robert Carey to lead its work with government agencies.

Booz Allen invests in cyber firm

Booz Allen Hamilton has become an investor in a commercial cyber company with digital forensics and incident response technologies.

Podcasts

PROJECT 38: How 2020 has shaped 2021 opportunities

We can finally turn the page to 2021 but any look to the future requires some looking back at 2020. In this episode of Project 38, PM Consulting Group’s founder Walter Barnes gives Senior Staff Writer Ross Wilkers the ground-floor perspective on both what drove the federal market in 2020 and factors to shape it in 2021.

CACI pushes back after losing contract to support relocation program

CACI International has lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office after rival bidder Telos won a $35.9 million contract to support a massive relocation program in South Korea.

House makes changes to FedRAMP

The House this week passed a bill aimed at standardizing the processes federal agencies use to onboard cloud computing technologies.

Industry groups, execs put focus on democracy in wake of Capitol building riot

In the aftermath of the Capitol building riot, industry associations and company executives have urged calm while also extolling the virtues of democracy.

Maximus details CFO transition

Maximus promotes from within for its next chief financial officer as the current CFO moves toward retirement.

VTG hires former KeyW business, corporate development head

VTG, the company formerly known as VT Group, adds nearly three-decade market veteran and former KeyW business and corporate development head Kirk Herdman.

Axiologic closes first deal after prep year

Axiologic Solutions spent a full year on putting the personnel and financing in place to close its first acquisition, which sees it buy Knowledge Link to gain a new intelligence customer and more capabilities.

LinQuest makes deal for added electromagnetics & communications offerings

LinQuest Corp.'s second acquisition under its current private equity backing eyes further expertise in electromagnetics, digital signal processing and radio frequency communications.

Octo's board adds former NGA director

Octo's board of directors elects former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia "Tish" Long as a new member.

ASRC Federal hires new human resources lead

ASRC Federal hires a 15-year industry veteran and former Serco Inc. chief human resources officer to the same position.

Paradyme lands former FBI executive

Paradyme Management has hired Roger Miller, the former leader of IT and operational services in the FBI's national security branch.

Sagewind Capital, Jordan launch new government platforms

Private equity firms Sagewind Capital and The Jordan Company reveal their latest backings of companies in the government technology and professional services market.

PSC's Chvotkin joins law firm

Law firm Nichols Liu has added a new name to its team in Alan Chvotkin, the former Professional Services Council executive vice president and counsel.

2020 ends with flurry of contract activity

The end of 2020 saw government agencies make contract awards and take other procurement actions on contracts worth billions of dollars.

Booz Allen loses ICE contract after not fully detailing exit strategy

Booz Allen Hamilton loses this Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract on not adequately explaining how it would transition out of the program in the event of a future recompete loss.

DARPA's tech 2021 priorities include space, sensors, human systems

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released its 2021 priorities for two of its main small business programs and on the list are space, sensors, human systems and IT.

Lockheed exec Michele Evans has died

Michele Evans, executive vice president of the aeronautics segment at Lockheed Martin, died on Friday at age 55.

We return to work with a familiar start: six M&A deals

WT opens for business again to start 2021 and our first day back on the job already looks a lot like 2020 in that we have six announced or completed acquisitions to run through.