Cisco has partnered with the city of Dallas and New York-based digital services firm Presidio to install information technology infrastructure in public areas to provide internet connectivity to underserved communities.

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The White House has reappointed John Keker, founder of law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters, and added Mark Pincus, co-founder and chairman of social gaming company Zynga, to the Presidio Trust board of directors. Keker takes the seat that Alex Mehran of Sunset Development Company has vacated while Pincus fills in for Keker, Presidio Trust said […] More

President Barack Obama has announced his plan to appoint Lynne Benioff, Janet Reilly and Nicola Miner to the board of directors of the Presidio Trust. The Presidio Trust said Monday the three nominees will take on the roles of departing board members Charlene Harvey, Nancy Hellman Bechtle and William Hambrecht. Paula Robinson Collins will serve her […] More

Matt Parsons, a 17-year sales professional in enterprise hardware and software products, has joined Seneca Holdings' RavenTek subsidiary as director of federal civilian sales, G2XChange ETC reported Monday.

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Ed Caso and Justin Donati, chartered financial analysts for Wells Fargo, noticed that government service providers are all about deploying new technology and having the “mission” knowledge of their clients to bridge Silicon Valley into the end market, Wells Fargo reported on Friday. More

CenturyLink has teamed up with collab9 to offer the latter’s cloud-based unified communications-as-a-service system to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board under a potential three-year contract. CenturyLink said Wednesday it secured the award through a General Services Administration contract held by its Level 3 Communications subsidiary. The contract has a one-year base term and two option years. […] More

Collab9 will deploy its unified communications-as-a-service platform for the Customs and Border Protection as part of a contract awarded to collab9’s partner company Presidio. The award — issued through the EAGLE II procurement vehicle — requires Presidio to perform professional, managed and ongoing support services such as strategy, consulting, design and implementation support, collab9 said Wednesday. Collab9’s cloud-based […] More

Humatics has completed its Series A financing round with $18 million raised to support efforts to market the company’s machine-powered microlocation system and analytics software. The Spatial Intelligence Platform is designed to augment human navigation, location and collaboration operations with autonomous systems, the company announced Tuesday. Mobility-focused venture capital firm Fontinalis Partners led the funding round, with investment […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon an $18.2 million contract modification to develop and implement an acceptance test platform for circuit card assemblies and stacks of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA system. Raytheon’s missile systems segment in Tucson, Arizona will use the Presidio Gen 2 Block IV/V automated test architecture to produce CCA assembly level testing procedures, the […] More