Today, Globys has completed the amalgamation of the CenturyLink instances into one SaaS environment that will provide customer-facing capabilities for invoice analysis, consolidation, reporting and payment. The migration will support Lumen’s digital transformation under the new brand. The move will enable customers to view their product and service usage in near real-time, instead of navigating through multiple portals to review, analyze and pay their bills.
Read More »Stephanie Shutt: GSA to Begin Multiple Award Schedule Consolidation in 2019
Stephanie Shutt, director of the Multiple Award Schedules program management office at the General Services Administration, has said GSA will start the process of consolidating the schedules into a single contract vehicle in 2019, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Shutt said a project team consists of MAS officials and members will assess …
Read More »George Krivo: DynCorp Works With Air Force to Address Readiness Shortfall
George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday about the company’s efforts to help the U.S. Air Force address readiness shortfall. “We’re working with [Air Education and Training Command] to come up with a way that we think contractors can augment the U.S. Air Force pilot training …
Read More »George Krivo: DynCorp Aims to Grow Scale Through M&As
George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, told Defense News in an interview published Wednesday that the company has begun to look at merger and acquisition opportunities as it aims to increase its scale to approximately $3B to $4B in annual revenue. “In the next six months to a year, you’ll …
Read More »Larry Prior: GovCon Industry Could See ‘Another Wave of Consolidation’
Former CSRA CEO Larry Prior, a four-time Wash100 winner, has said the federal government’s spending plans and demand for novel technology platforms will likely drive more mergers and acquisitions among contracting firms, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Prior, who was recently named to the board of analytics firm Novetta, said at …
Read More »Bechtel to Consolidate Global Headquarters in Reston, VA; Jack Futcher Comments
Bechtel has announced plans to consolidate its corporate leadership teams and operations into a new global headquarters in Reston, Va., by the end of the year. The company said Thursday it will also transfer corporate positions from Houston and San Francisco to Virginia. Jack Futcher, chief operating officer of Bechtel, …
Read More »FLIR Systems to Reorganize Business Structure Into 3 Operating Units; Jim Cannon Comments
FLIR Systems has announced that it will consolidate its business operations across the government and defense, industrial and commercial components in efforts to simplify the company’s business processes. The company announced Wednesday the restructuring also aims to foster operating synergies and establish management priorities. Jim Cannon, president and CEO at …
Read More »L-3 to Integrate Electron Devices Unit With Manufacturing Operations; Michael Strianese Comments
L-3 Communications plans to move the manufacturing operations of its electron devices facility in San Carlos, California, to the company’s north central Pennsylvania and Los Angeles sites by the end of 2017. L-3 said Monday the consolidation efforts will occur throughout 2017. Michael Strianese, L-3 chairman and CEO, said the company will …
Read More »VA Seeks Industry Input on Enterprise Cloud Broker Support Services
The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information on potential industry sources of enterprise cloud broker services in support of the agency’s efforts to update its information technology infrastructure. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice published April 4 it is in search of a broker that will …
Read More »KippsDeSanto’s Jon Yim: GSA Contract Vehicle Consolidations Bring ‘More Uncertainty’ in M&A Market
Jon Yim, a director at investment bank KippsDeSanto, has cited potential implications of the General Services Administration’s efforts to consolidate contract vehicles for buyers and sellers seeking to enter the mergers and acquisitions market. Yim wrote in a blog post posted Oct. 26 the changes that contract consolidation has brought to the …
Read More »Dirk van der Vaart on His Agenda for GardaWorld’s US Arm and Security Sector Trends
Dirk van der Vaart took the role of president in April at GardaWorld Government Services — the U.S. subsidiary of global security services contractor Garda World. The 20-year defense and security market veteran’s background includes executive roles at GLOBAL Integrated Security and Raytheon, as well as service in the Coast Guard Reserve and …
Read More »SAIC to Support Toyota Information Systems End Users in North America
Science Applications International Corp. will provide support for information systems end users at Toyota Motor Corp. sales and manufacturing affiliates in North America under a five-year, $54 million contract. SAIC said Monday it will provide Toyota Motor North America with information systems services to support end user and dealer service desks, messaging and collaboration, and access …
Read More »Juniper VP Brian Roach: SDN Becoming a Key Modernization Tool for Federal IT
Brian Roach, vice president of the federal business and managing director for worldwide government at Juniper Networks, says that the Defense Department and other agencies are increasingly using software-defined networking to streamline IT systems. Roach writes in a guest piece published Tuesday on Defense Systems that current government efforts in network …
Read More »Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion
Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow …
Read More »MarkLogic’s Idriss Mekrez: Enterprise Data Layer to Consolidate, Manage Data Silos
MarkLogic‘s Idriss Mekrez believes enterprise data layers will work to consolidate and manage data infrastructure for companies as they seek to eliminate data silo issues such as data redundancy and information security. “[An] enterprise data layer presents a streamlined and manageable approach for CIOs tasked to provide appropriate access to data …
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