Ron Bouganim, a technology entrepreneur, has put forward an initial investment of $23 million into a venture fund as he seeks to help the federal government update its technology infrastructure, the Washington Post reported Monday. Nancy Scola writes the Govtech Fund seeks to invest in companies that have the potential to land technology-related contracts with the federal government. The venture […] More

Angela Carrington is a vice president and partner in IBM’s public sector business consulting practice, where she serves as the industry executive for the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Foreign Affairs (USAID and State). As part of the IBM industry team, she leads IBM’s go to market efforts for these agencies. Her areas of focus in […] More

Cubic‘s transportation systems business has won an $8 million contract from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to replace its paper magnetic farecard vending machines with SmarTrip sales and reload devices. The company said Monday it will convert at least 500 machines as WMATA seeks to completely modernize its fare system to the contactless smart card […] More

Maritime Solutions has introduced a new satellite antenna offering for customers to set up bandwidth services according to the requirements of end users, Maritime Global News reported June 19. Greg Trauthwein writes the Harris CapRock Communications company teamed up with equipment manufacturers and invested in new technologies to develop the VSAT network architecture for bandwidth […] More