The Department of Defense plans to award cloud infrastructure services contracts worth potentially $9 billion combined in December under the five-year Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, CNBC reported Tuesday. In July 2021, DOD launched JWCC as a multivendor procurement effort to replace the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructu...
Keith Johnson, a four-decade government market veteran and a former executive at Spire Global, has joined artificial intelligence software provider CrowdAI as strategic revenue officer. Johnson led the establishment of Spire Global’s (NYSE: SPIR) federal practice and helped the space company go public in August 2021, when it merged with specia...
Jeffrey Specht, most recently executive director of the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, has joined Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) as senior director for government security. He brings to Oracle 27 years of experience as a civil servant and will oversee the company’s efforts in delivering support and building partnerships with DOD, the U.S. intellig...
The waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 for the proposed acquisition of health information technology company Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) by Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) expired Tuesday, Feb. 22. Oracle agreed to acquire Cerner for approximately $28.3 billion through an all-cash tender offer in late December and both parti...
Chuck Cash, a more than two-decade veteran of the government technology market, has been named vice president of federal sales at Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR). He will oversee the development and execution of Spire’s growth strategy in the federal sector and expand partnerships with government clients, the space data provider said Thursday. Cash ...
Executive Mosaic has introduced Pat Mungovan, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle’s government and education business in North America, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient. This marks his entry into the premier class of 100 executives recognized by Executive Mosaic as the most significant contributors in the government contractin...
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is in discussions to acquire Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) in a transaction that could be valued at approximately $30 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. WSJ cited sources that say both parties could reach an agreement soon. The potential acquisition could help Oracle, which has a market value of more than $280...
Deloitte has entered into a deal to acquire BIAS, an information technology consultancy that helps public and private sector customers adopt Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) Cloud Infrastructure. Deloitte said Thursday that terms of the deal are confidential and the company pursued the transaction to complement its portfolio of Oracle cloud migration service off...
The Department of Defense has asked Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) to compete for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “Our commitment to supporting our nation’s military and ensuring that our warfighters and defense partners have access to the ...
Gary Newgaard, former vice president at data storage hardware and software developer Pure Storage, has joined Sumo Logic to serve as general manager of the cloud-based machine data analytics company’s public sector, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He brings to his new role his decades-long experience in working at several government-focused...
