Science Applications International Corp. has agreed to buy Unisys’ federal business unit for $1.2B in cash, SAIC announced on Thursday. The transaction multiple of approximately 13x LTM 9/30/19 Adjusted EBITDA(5) will add greater value to SAIC and will provide a significant premium to Unisys’ trading multiple.

E3/Sentinel has been reappraised at Maturity Level 3 under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration framework in the validation of the firm’s services.

Medallia has secured Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board certification for a software-as-a-service tool designed to access customer insights through human and machine learning capabilities.

Kevin Orr, formerly vice president of BMC Software’s federal segment, has assumed the same role at CyberArk, G2XChange ETC reported Wednesday.

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that there are several factors agencies should consider as they adopt a multicloud approach and one is the transparency and flexibility multicloud brings to agencies.

Sandeep Shilawat, executive director for cloud and DevOps at ManTech International, wrote in a Forbes article published Tuesday that the federal government should implement a mechanism in the budgeting process to allow program managers to reuse cloud adoption-related cost savings.

John Pi, formerly a supervisory special agent at the FBI, has been named chief medical officer at DSFederal.

Ken Folderauer, vice president of Comcast Business, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the company’s expansion into the federal government space, what will differentiate Comcast Business in the market, how the company can help the federal government prepare for the future, continue to drive growth and exceed expectations.

Kurt Small, formerly president of government markets at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, has been appointed to lead healthcare firm Anthem’s federal government solutions business, FedHealthIT reported Friday.

Jeff Knodel, former senior account manager for the departments of Energy, Interior and Veterans Affairs at Govplace, has been named director of sales at AttackIQ’s federal civilian group, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

Steven Spano, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and regional vice president for the public sector business at data visualization software company Tableau, has said leadership teams in the federal government can play a key role in the creation of a data-driven culture to help employees obtain insights, make decisions and improve mission outcomes. 

Accenture opened a facility in San Antonio as part of efforts to help defense and civilian agencies deter cyber threats through security-as-a-service offerings.