Maya Viz Ltd. develops enhanced visualization and collaboration technologies that support real-time decision making, officials from General Dynamics said.
With the telecommunications industry rapidly consolidating, cable television companies are starting to see opportunities to grab business in the federal market.
The General Services Administration's plan to reorganize the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services must go beyond the superficial merging of two organizations and improve the organization's overall value to agencies and industry, federal and private sector officials said.
Two years ago, Congress gave a new IT contracting vehicle a boost by including it in the E-Government Act of 2002. Share-in-savings contracts were supposed to revolutionize government IT procurements by unleashing contractor creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
BAE Systems North America Inc. has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire United Defense Industries Inc. of Arlington, Va., for $4.2 billion, company officials said.
DRS Technologies Inc. is divesting its broadcast and weather system divisions as part of a strategy to concentrate on its core defense technology business.
What is to become of Metis, the popular modeling tool from Computas Technology Inc., now that Austin, Texas-based Troux Technologies Inc. has snapped it up? Agencies, including the Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services and Treasury departments, use Computas' Metis software to map enterprise architectures.
Thomas Sundling has been on both sides of deal making. As an executive at GTE Corp., he experienced that company's acquisition by General Dynamics Corp. While at GD, he helped engineer several deals ? including the blockbuster $1.5 billion acquisition of Veridian Corp. ? to help that company grow its IT business.
Lockheed Martin Corp. has completed its acquisition of Stasys Ltd., a U.K. technology and consulting firm that specializes in network communications and defense interoperability.
