Thoma Bravo backs merger of public sector software firms
The combined company aims to help government agencies in their data discovery and process management functions. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has backed a merger of two companies focused on data discovery and process management software. Thoma Bravo’s investment will bring together Opexus and Casepoint, with Opexus CEO Howard Langsam leading the new company. Casepoint’s co-founder and […]
First wave of DEI-related contract cancellations hit the market
An even larger number of contracts are seeing modifications that drop requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion. President Trump’s push to rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion requirements has started to hit specific contracts and task orders. Most of the contracts we have identified, so far, are tagged with orders to modify and/or remove requirements […]
Assured Information Security wins $300M Air Force recompete
The company will continue its support of SecureView, a government-wide standard for enabling remote network access at multiple levels. Assured Information Security has won a potential 10-year, $300 million contract to continue its role as a main provider of software and hardware for the Air Force’s remote access functions. The Air Force Research Laboratory received three bids for the […]
Gregory Barbaccia named federal CIO
The Palantir alum has also served in the Army and as an intelligence analyst. The U.S. government has a new federal chief information officer, Palantir alum Gregory Barbaccia, who started in the role Monday, according to two people familiar with the personnel change who were not authorized to speak on the record. He’ll be in charge of overseeing, […]
WT 360: The ties between tech and talent in the public sector
Jill Jones and Yoko Jolly, executives at CrossVue, discuss the connections between technology and transformation efforts across government with respect to their human capital initiatives. Many questions about talent in public sector often center around the hiring process and what happens after the offer letter is signed, that being the onboarding phase. Where technology fits […]