Anne Altman, former general manager of U.S. federal and government industries at IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Product Management Vice President Gayathri Rajan have been appointed to the board of directors at government services contractor Maximus (NYSE: MMS). Reston, Va.-based Maximus said Monday Alt...
December 5 – December 9, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson GovCon industry leaders and observers welcomed Vectrus to the government services landscape in the autumn of 2014 and this week marks the beginning of a new era for the Colorado Springs-based company. As...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 7, 2016 ” Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been named by President-elect Donald Trump to be a member of the Strategic and Policy Forum, Executive Gov reported Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday Rometty will join 15 other business leaders on the forum to advise Trump on his efforts...
Chuck Prow, a former head of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) global government business and a 12-year Big Blue veteran, has joined Colorado Springs-based government services contractor Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) as CEO and board of directors member in a transition that took effect Tuesday. Vectrus announced the transition in a Tuesday release and s...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a potential 10-year, $149 million contract to provide new human resource and time and management systems for General Services Administration personnel and external customers. The company will develop self-service HR and T&A systems that GSA customers will be able to access with mobile platforms a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NVIDIA have collaborated to develop a new machine learning tool that will work to train computers to learn in a human-like manner and boost their overall operational speed, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. IBM PowerAI is designed to operate with NVIDIA’s NVL...
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) has named Kieran McGrath, previously interim chief financial officer, to executive vice president and CFO in a move that takes effect immediately. McGrath will report directly to CEO Mike Gregoire and manage the company’s global corporate and business unit financial functions, encompassing controller role, treasury...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 26, 2016 ” Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) U.S. federal business, has said in a panel discussion that cloud service providers work to deliver purpose-built cloud platforms to meet the needs of both the private and public sectors, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a potential five-year, $62 million task order to build and operate a cloud-based computing center for the U.S. Army‘s highly classified data, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jared Serbu writes that IBM will establish the pilot Army Private Cloud Enterprise facility at Redston...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 12, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Siemens have entered into an alliance that seeks to promote the application of Population Health Management platforms to treat patients afflicted with complex and chronic illnesses, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. IBM said Tuesday the partnership combines its Watson Health cognitiv...
