The Department of State has approved Kuwait’s request to purchase equipment and support services for the upgrade and recertification of the Middle Eastern nation’s Patriot missiles. The possible foreign military sale is estimated to be valued at $400 million, with RTX to serve as principal contractor, the Defense Security Cooperatio...
By Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Lead, IBM Shadow software-as-a-service refers to unauthorized cloud applications used within an organization. Shadow SaaS is a challenge in modern IT governance. IT teams lack oversight and monitoring of unapproved applications making it difficult to effectively govern shadow SaaS. A recent NextDLP survey o...
Juliane Gallina is a rare kind of intelligence community official. Her résumé contains experience that covers all bases: private sector, military and federal agency, and Gallina, who now serves as deputy director for digital intelligence at the CIA, uses this multi-industry fluency to speak to different audiences about the agency’s prioriti...
The State Department has approved the Philippines’ foreign military sale request for an estimated $5.58 billion worth of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, missiles, equipment and related services. Philippines’ FMS Details The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday Lockheed Martin, as the principal contractor for the proposed...
AeroVironment stockholders have approved the issuance of AV common stock for the acquisition of the defense engineering company BlueHalo. In a statement posted Tuesday, Wahid Nawabi, chairman, president and CEO of AV, said the milestone will enable his company to move forward with BlueHalo’s acquisition and turn AV into a leading def...
CAE Defense & Security has secured a recompete contract valued at $180 million to continue providing comprehensive flight training support for the U.S. Army’s advanced airframes. The company said Monday it was awarded the competitive recompete contract under the Advanced Helicopter Flight Training Support, or AHFTS, program. The renew...
Chad Kleist has been appointed vice president of human resources at Cherokee Federal as part of the government contractor’s efforts to bolster its workforce in support of its ongoing expansion. The federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses said Monday Kleist has a proven track record of driving global teams through t...
The Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE, is the most prominent and transformative thing happening in the federal government right now — it’s tough to argue with that, no matter if you’re in the industrial base serving the government, working in the commercial sector or a government official yourself. According to GovSpend, the...
Intelligence technology company Nightwing has acquired Roka Security for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its capacity to deliver more targeted, full-spectrum cyber platforms to government and private sector customers. Expanding Cyber Capabilities Dulles, Virgnia-based Nightwing said Thursday it expects Roka Security’s team of experts to compl...
We last spoke to Davidson Technologies’ James Parys at our sister publication ExecutiveBiz about a year ago and the conversation centered around Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. Though Parys has transitioned to a new company since then, his faith in the capabilities of advanced technologies and how they can enable Depar...
