SAN MATEO, CA, Feb 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — AtHoc, Inc. ( www.athoc.com ), the pioneer and leader in providing network-centric emergency mass notification systems to military, government, healthcare, higher education and commercial organizations, today announced it will be equipping ...
via FT.com Defence contractors are renewing efforts to expand their non-military businesses as they search for strategies to cope with declining defence budgets worldwide. Last month, General Dynamics, the fourth-biggest US defence contractor by government revenues, agreed to buy Vangent — ...
via Washington Technology Despite the sputtering economy and the uncertainties of the federal marketplace, Raytheon Co. had a busy — and profitable — year in 2010. The company reported 2010 net sales of $25.2 billion and won about a half-dozen large federal contracts, achieving one of th...
via Washington Technology Verizon Communications Inc. is preparing to ride a government wave to cloud computing. “I think we will see every federal agency this year do something with a cloud opportunity, and our sights will be targeted right at those,” said Susan Zeleniak, group presiden...
via ExecutiveBiz The beltway was hopping this week with major moves and mergers. Across our media properties, we tracked news at the FBI, a changing of the guard at DoD and the changing faces at some of GovCon’s executive tables. ExecutiveGov topped the news this week with reports that Central...
via info security British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million. ETI, with annual sales of approximately $61 million, employs 260 people in Denmark, the UK, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. BAE Systems said the acquisiti...
via Herald Wire Services Defense contractor Raytheon Co. said it would pay $490 million to acquire cybersecurity firm Applied Signal Technology Inc., which makes equipment that militaries and governments use to detect threats. The purchase expands Waltham-based Raytheon’s reach in products that ga...