Wayne Lucernoni, president of Harris information technology services, has indicated that the business unit is working to establish its presence in the market beyond the company’s telecommunications brand, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes that Lucernoni pointed to current campaigns in the healthcare and intelligence sectors and efforts to streamline bidding for future projects. Lucernoni said …
Read More »Tony Smeraglinolo: Consolidation Would Facilitate ‘Mission Readiness’ in Govt Sector
Merger and acquisition deals offer a way for contractors to integrate technology offerings to help government organizations fulfill their missions, Engility CEO Tony Smeraglinolo said Tuesday in a conference keynote adapted for Washington Technology. “Consolidation is undoubtedly a good thing for both the industry and our government partners,” Smeraglinolo told …
Read More »Hitachi Offers Logical Partitioning Tech for SAP HANA; Mike Walkey Comments
Hitachi and its subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems have unveiled an x86-based logical partitioning solution for SAP HANA to support server virtualization and network consolidation on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment. The company said Sunday Hitachi LPAR works to provide computing and storage functions for system utilization and to streamline operations with a consolidated infrastructure. Mike …
Read More »Bill Lynn: Gov’t, Defense Industry Should Turn to Acquisition Reform, Globalization, Consolidation
Bill Lynn, DRS Technologies and Finmeccanica North America chief executive officer, urges the U.S. government and the defense industry to collaborate on establishing acquisition reform, fostering globalization and consolidating industry operations. Lynn, who is a former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, wrote Tuesday in Breaking Defense that the above actions are …
Read More »Boeing’s Chris Chadwick Foresees More Teamwork in Defense Industry
Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense business, predicts that government spending cuts worldwide will drive more partnerships and consolidations in the defense sector, Defense News reported Wednesday. Aaron Mehta writes that Chadwick discussed the role of strategic alliances in the industry during a media event held Tuesday at a …
Read More »Intelsat’s Kay Sears: Budget Cuts Led to Dialogue In The Pentagon
Executives from Boeing, Intelsat and SpaceX and SSL Federal gathered Tuesday at the National Space Symposium to discuss government innovation and industry consolidation trends in light of the current fiscal environment, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General, told the forum audience that …
Read More »Arnold Punaro: Sequestration Likely to Result in Greater Defense Consolidation
Arnold Punaro expects the defense industry to see greater consolidation as a result of sequestration cuts to the Pentagon budget, he told the Washington Post in a story published Monday. Marjorie Censer writes Punaro, the newly-appointed chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association‘s board of directors, also told the newspaper in an …
Read More »Jim Anthony of Terremark: Big Data Growth to Drive Cloud Sector Consolidation
The surge in consumer demand for big data analytics technology and services could spark consolidation among cloud computing providers, according to Jim Anthony, Terremark vice president of sales engineering. In a Tuesday blog post, Anthony writes that network power, application programming interfaces and service level agreements are necessary to ensure …
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