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Fairfax-based Guidehouse names chief technology officer

Fairfax-based Guidehouse has named Dan Hushon to lead its technology efforts.

As chief technology officer, Hushon will lead transformational activities as Guidehouse speeds delivery of digital solutions for its commercial and public sector clients. He will also lead the company’s next generation cloud computing solutions and bring a “Silicon Valley” approach to new client demands, Guidehouse said in a news release.

Hushon is “an experienced technologist and proven industry visionary who will be a valuable asset to Guidehouse and our clients,” said Guidehouse CEO Scott McIntyre. “Dan’s passion, technological savvy and excellent leadership capabilities will be instrumental in advancing our innovation efforts as we work together to propel Guidehouse into our next phase of growth.”

Hushon has most recently worked as a technical consultant for investment and technology firms as served as CTO for Tysons-based DXC Technology from April 2017 through October 2020. He has a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and previously served as a member of the Forbes Technology Council as well as the World Economic Council’s Information and Communications Technology Forum, according to his LinkedIn account.

“My goal is to constantly challenge the horizons of technology, providing a potential for ongoing innovation and leadership that drives transformational change,” Hushon said. “I am thrilled to join Guidehouse at this exciting time, and am looking forward to playing a key role in supporting its continued growth.”

Guidehouse announced it would move its global headquarters to Tysons in May 2021, creating at least 900 jobs. Owned by Veritas Capital, Guidehouse employs more than 12,000 people in more than 50 locations around the world and works in public and commercial markets, providing advisory, consulting, outsourcing and digital services in management, technology and risk consulting.

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 other relevant professional services to automate, optimize and modernize the DHS Hybrid Computing Environment. The environment is a collection of enterprise computing resources, including a data center, colocation sites, private cloud services and DHS-furnished commercial cloud services.

“Peraton is proud to continue our support of DHS and help advance their national security priorities,” Peraton Chairman, President and CEO Stu Shea said in a statement. “This award further demonstrates our ability to deliver adaptable, managed enterprise IT services and support DHS’ goal to create scalable, innovative and cost-effective solutions that support and drive mission success across the department.”

Post-acquisition of Perspecta Inc. and Northrop Grumman’s integrated mission support and IT solution business, Peraton has more than 150 offices and 19,000 employees. In December 2021, it announced that it would be moving its headquarters from Herndon to Reston. The company is owned by Veritas Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.

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 as its CFO, and he will remain in his post to assist with filing and certification of Appian’s annual report, as well as to help his successor.

“Mark [Lynch] has been Appian’s CFO for half the lifetime of the company. He’s a tremendous executive and a good friend. He’s earned the trust and confidence of our employees and our investors. We appreciate his wisdom, professionalism, and sense of humor — and we wish him well in his retirement,” Chairman and CEO Matt Calkins said in a statement.

Lynch previously served as CFO at MicroStrategy and World Airways, as well as vice president of finance at IntelliData. A Penn State and George Washington University alum, Lynch was named CFO of the year in 2010 by the Washington Business Journal and Public Company CFO of the year in 2018 by the Northern Virginia Technology Council.

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 priority on enabling ready access to data and analytics across its enterprise so its teams can make faster, smarter decisions that benefit their business, operations, and mission,” said Leslie DiFonzo, an executive vice president at Booz Allen, in a statement. “We are proud to take part in helping the Department of Defense continue the meteoric growth of the Advana platform by providing full lifecycle IT support, data engineering and analytics capabilities.”

Under the contract, Booz Allen will provide services to DOD utilizing data engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning operations, data visualization and cloud computing.

Led by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), Advana integrates hundreds of DOD business systems, ranging from financial and medical data to personnel and logistics information, into one platform accessed by more than 20,000 users across 42 DOD organizations.

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 decade in her role as vice president of worldwide sector and industries at AWS. She previously served as an executive at Microsoft.

Carlson’s former boss, Andy Jassy, was tapped to replace Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon in February. That led to some speculation that Carlson could be an internal candidate to become CEO of AWS. But Jassy announced in March that Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky was taking the job.

With Carlson moving to the data management and cloud services company Splunk, her replacement will be Max Peterson, currently vice president of the public sector’s international business, an AWS spokesperson confirmed.

Carlson’s will start her newly created role at Splunk effective April 19. The company says she will be responsible for driving go-to-market business segments, advancing cloud-first initiatives, accelerating growth and pursuing new market opportunities.

Splunk reported revenue of $2.23 billion last fiscal year — $554 million of which was attributable to cloud revenue, an increase of 77% from the previous fiscal year. Splunk’s customers include Tide, Lockheed Martin Space, California Pizza Kitchen, The New York City Fire Department and the U.S. Census Bureau.

“Together,” Carlson said in a statement, “we will build on Splunk’s legacy of innovation as one of the fastest growing companies in the history of enterprise software.”

Regarding Carlson’s departure, an AWS spokesperson said in an email, “We’re really proud about the work Teresa has done to help public sector customers around the world reimagine digital transformation and achieve mission success, and we wish her the best moving forward.”

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 our continued growth in the federal IT market and support the delivery of mission-critical cloud solutions to better serve our defense and intelligence customers.”

Long has previously held leadership positions across the NGA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. She has previously served as the deputy director of Navy intelligence and was the first chief information officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency. 

She was the first woman to lead a U.S. intelligence agency, and currently serves as chairman of the board for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Long also serves on the boards of directors of Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT), Parsons, Noblis and the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors as vice rector. She earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and her master’s degree in mechanical engineering from The Catholic University of America.

Founded in 1982, AIS provides cloud transformation services to government agencies and commercial clients. 

 

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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 that didn’t disclose the financial terms of the acquisition, Salesforce said that Acumen would become part of Salesforce Professional Services. The statement called Acumen “a leading professional services firm with deep Salesforce knowledge and extensive industry expertise across public sector, manufacturing, financial services and more.”

In June, Salesforce closed on its deal to acquire San Francisco cloud and mobile software provider Vlocity for $1.3 billion. In the Acumen statement, Salesforce said that the acquisitions meant that “customers can go digital faster and transform their industry.”

 

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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, said the company on Nov. 30. CMS plans to adopt Microsoft Azure Government and Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud platforms in efforts to modernize care delivery processes via the Healthcare.gov and Medicare.gov sites.

Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), said the award continues the company’s four-decade partnership with the agency.

 

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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 Johnson in a statement. “Their commitment to customers, employees, and company culture is well-aligned with the values that have made DivvyCloud so successful. With the combined expertise of both Rapid7 and DivvyCloud, we are even better positioned to help enterprises accelerate innovation using cloud and containers without the loss of control.”

Founded in 2013, DivvyCloud moved into a new headquarters in Arlington’s Court House area in September 2019, after growing from 20 to 55 employees in a year.  Its customer base has included Kroger, CoStar and Pizza Hut, and nearly a quarter of its clients were Fortune 100 companies as of 2019.

Rapid7 Chairman and CEO Corey Thomas said, “We are thrilled to welcome DivvyCloud and its customers to the Rapid7 family. We have been very impressed with the DivvyCloud team and its technology for some time. As the rate of cloud adoption continues to rise, the DivvyCloud platform will be an important part of our offering, giving customers a much deeper, comprehensive view into their cloud security posture.”

Rapid7 will make DivvyCloud’s platform available to its customers, allowing them real-time protection and remediation of cloud and container environments.

“Security teams are constantly challenged with understanding and effectively managing the risk and security for cloud environments at DevOps speeds,” said Lee Weiner, chief innovation officer for Rapid7. “DivvyCloud’s technology, team, and market leadership in the cloud security space will enable Rapid7 to better serve its customers’ needs by helping them innovate more securely, and provide a robust set of compliance and remediation paths for those with modern cloud infrastructure.”

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 processes between software development and IT services, and DevSecOps integrates security into that process. IndraSoft, under the contract, will migrate Army data to secure cloud operations and implement cloud architecture to increase efficiency and lower costs for INSCOM.

“META represents a key aspect of the Army’s national security mission,” IndraSoft President and Chief Technology Officer Raj Lingam said in a statement. “We look forward to working closely with the Army to enable their vision for exploiting cloud technologies to increase mission effectiveness.”

IndraSoft was founded in 2002 and has also served the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Department of State, Department of Justice and the U.S. Census Bureau, among others.