Appian founder and CEO Matt Calkins has taken his love of strategic board games to build a winning business process management company that has been growing rapidly.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide training and technical support to the Coast Guard under a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a $57 million ceiling value.
Gary Winkler, who recently retired after more than four years as the Army program executive officer for Enterprise Information Systems, is planning to take a two-pronged approach to his new civilian career as a national security consultant.
Merger and acquisition activity in the IT and communications sector made a strong recovery in 2010, with more than 1,900 M&A deals, a new IDC survey finds.
Apptis Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. have been awarded two contract modifications by the Defense Information Systems Agency that will add two six-month option periods and increase the ceiling amount of the contracts to $4.8 billion from $4.2 billion.
SAIC saw its fourth-quarter revenues increase 3 percent over the previous year's quarter, from $2.68 billion to $2.77 billion, while revenues for fiscal 2011 rose a modest 2 percent overall to $11.1 billion.
Alion Science and Technology Corp. has won a five-year, $200 million delivery order to provide professional support services to the Navy Program Executive Office - Integrated Warfare Systems.
FedStore Corp. continues to revamp its executive team, hiring Jay Jabbari, a 22-year industry veteran, as senior vice president of sales. Jabbari will report directly to President Skip Trahern, who joined the IT services provider in mid-March.
Hewlett-Packard Co., in another step to expand its services beyond hardware sales, has acquired Vertica Systems Inc., a provider of real-time analytics. Financial terms were not reported.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has won a five-year, $176 million services agreement with the Nevada Division of Health Care Financing and Policy to strengthen Medicaid operations and help position the state for health care reform.
Three D.C.-area small-business IT contractors will vie for task order work under a Defense Department contract that has a maximum value of $495 million.
Science Applications International Corp. has won a three-year, $23 million Defense Department task order to work on Phase 3 of the Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset, developing technology specifically designed to reduce WMD threats.
The government is broke. Nevertheless, there is some good news for the government contracting community if you can help agencies save money, says former Congressman Tom Davis.
CRI Advantage Inc. will provide IT support services to the Energy Department Office of the Chief Financial Officer’s iManage Program under a five-year contract that could be worth as much as $36 million.
Friends and colleagues are remembering technology community giant Dan Bannister, former founder, president and CEO of DynCorp., who passed away March 13. He was 80.
