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Peraton lands $2.69B Homeland Security contract
Federal contractor Peraton Inc.’s subsidiary, Perspecta Engineering Inc., landed a potential 10-year, almost $2.69 billion contract to assist the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Wednesday. Under the indefinite quantity, indefinite quantity contract, Peraton will assist with Data Center and Cloud Optimization Support Services, providing information technology and o[...]
Appian CFO to retire in 2022
Mark Lynch, Appian Corp.‘s chief financial officer, will retire effective March 31, 2022, the McLean-based cloud computing company announced Friday. Appian will fill the position through an executive search process. Mark Matheos, the company’s senior vice president and global controller, will be promoted to chief accounting officer effective Dec. 31. Lynch joined Appian in 2009 [&helli[...]
Booz Allen Hamilton wins $674M DOD contract
McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. was awarded a five-year, $674 million contract from the General Services Administration to maintain and support the growth of the Department of Defense’s Advana data analytics platform. “In response to increasingly advanced threats from global adversaries, the Department of Defense has placed a clear [&h[...]
Teresa Carlson leaves Amazon Web Services
Teresa Carlson, the Herndon-based executive who founded Amazon Web Services’ public sector business, is leaving Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing subsidiary to become president and chief growth officer of Splunk Inc., the San Francisco tech company announced today. Carlson was an influential and visible presence in the Washington, D.C., region for a little more than a […]
Reston-based company names Tish Long to board of directors
Reston-based Applied Information Services (AIS) announced Tuesday it has named former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia “Tish” Long to the company’s board of directors. “Tish’s impact in the defense and intelligence community is unmatched,” AIS President and CEO Larry Katzman said in a statement. “Her industry and board experience will foster ou[...]
Salesforce to acquire McLean-based Acumen Solutions
On Dec. 1, the same day it announced that it was acquiring workplace communication service company Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock, cloud-services company Salesforce.com Inc. revealed that it’s also acquiring McLean-based professional services firm Acumen Solutions. San Francisco-based Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Acumen Solutions. In a statement [&[...]
General Dynamics books $241M CMS cloud implementation support order
Reston-based General Dynamics Corp.’s information technology business has secured a potential four-year, $241 million task order to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implement a multicloud computing environment. The cloud products and tool award, which has a one-year base period plus three one-year options, covers the procurement of instances from multiple service providers[...]
Boston tech company to acquire Arlington-based DivvyCloud for $145M
Boston-based tech company Rapid7 announced Tuesday that it‘s acquiring Arlington County-based cloud security and governance tech firm DivvyCloud for $145 million. The acquisition, which will be made via a combination of cash and stock, is expected to close before June. “Joining forces with Rapid7 is a natural next step,” said DivvyCloud CEO and co-founder Brian […]
Reston-based IndraSoft wins $43M Army contract
Reston-based software company IndraSoft Inc. has been granted a $43 million contract from the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to enable data sharing and DevSecOps system integration, the company announced Monday. This contract will support the Army’s Maintenance of Enterprise Technologies and Applications (META) program. DevOps is a set of practices that automates [&hell[...]
Fairfax-based ICF to acquire cloud services provider for $255M
Fairfax-based consulting and technology services provider ICF International Inc. plans to acquire Arlington-based cloud services provider Incentive Technology Group LLC (ITG) for $255 million, ICF announced Tuesday. The closing of the transaction is subject to approval and is expected to occur in the first quarter. “IT modernization and cloud together is estimated to be approximately [&helli[...]
SAIC nets $727M Air Force contract
Reston-based information technology company Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) received a $727 million contract from the U.S. Air Force that will move mission applications for the Air Force and Army to the cloud, SAIC announced Friday. SAIC was founded in 2013 and provides systems engineering, cloud migration, analytics, simulation, training and other IT services to […]
Arlington cloud security company appoints two execs
Arlington-based cloud security company DivvyCloud appointed Brandie Kalinowski as vice president of people and culture and David Geevaratne as vice president of North American Sales, the company announced Thursday. Kalinowski most recently was head of people operations at Etsy in Brooklyn, New York. She will focus on recruiting and developing DivvyCloud’s workforce. Geevaratne has 20 [&h[...]
