Global investment firm Francisco Partners  has agreed to acquire cybersecurity platforms provider Forcepoint from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for an undisclosed sum.

Mike Hanley, chief information security officer (CISO) of Cisco Systems, will participate in the expert panel during Potomac Officers Club’s Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event on August 26th. Click here to register for the Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event.

Chad Cisco, general manager of federal business at DataRobot, said artificial intelligence could help glean insights from massive amounts of data and agencies could allow their employees to take advantage of AI through the use of automated machine learning.

Nick Michaelides, vice president of U.S. federal sales at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has been promoted to senior VP of the company’s U.S. public sector organization.

Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) has landed a potential two-year, $724M joint enterprise license agreement with the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue to provide technical support and services across the Department of Defense.

Wes Bush, chairman of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) since 2011, has joined the board of directors at Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO). His appointment brings the number Cisco’s board members to 10, the company said Wednesday. The 35-year aerospace and defense industry veteran led Northrop as chief executive from 2010 to 2018 and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 13, 2018 — Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) executives Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell have urged the U.S. military to explore technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and in-line data analytics with an agile and resilient multinetwork architecture to support mission assurance, sustained operations and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 30, 2018 — Dan Kent, chief technology officer of the public sector business at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), believes there will be an increase in data migration to the cloud and opportunities for cloud providers to support government customers in this effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Federal Times …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2018 — Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said the company is working with federal customers to leverage the cloud as the platform for their information technology modernization efforts as networks gain new capabilities and grow …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 9, 2018 — Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has secured a moderate-level authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Cloudlock cloud security product, ExecutiveBiz reported. Nick Michaelides, vice president of U.S. federal sales at Cisco and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, wrote in …