AT&T (NYSE: T) has demonstrated 5G network capabilities for the U.S. Navy as part of a 5G-based warehouse project backed by the Department of Defense. The company said Tuesday its 5G network showed data throughput speeds of more than 4 gigabits per second and latency of less than 10 milliseconds on commodity mobile devices at...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $105 million contract to perform technical collection and communications work for U.S. Special Operations Command. USSOCOM received two bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and selected Raytheon Blackbird Technologies to provide field service ...
Frank Jimenez, former general counsel at the Department of the Navy and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), joined the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII). His appointment took effect Thursday and he is admitted to District of Columbia, New York, Florida and U.S. Supreme Court bars, HII said Tuesday. Jimenez previously hel...
The Office of Management and Budget released a new federal zero trust strategy that requires government agencies to meet robust cybersecurity standards and aims to reinforce federal defense capabilities against a rising number of threats on critical government infrastructure and operations. OMB’s strategy, released via memorandum on Jan. 26, build...
Anduril Industries has purchased Boston-based autonomous underwater vehicle manufacturer Dive Technologies in a strategy to add undersea coverage to the defense technology provider’s portfolio of unmanned systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquired company’s DIVE-LD platform can be tailored to match military requiremen...
Tenable Holdings (Nasdaq: TENB) has agreed to purchase Cymptom, a cybersecurity startup that specializes in mapping attack paths, in a deal that would add analytics to Tenable’s risk-based vulnerability management platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and Tenable said Tuesday it plans to integrate Cymptom’s agentless attack path...
ExecutiveBiz featured Larry Gwaltney, CEO of Federal Resources, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He talked about the company being acquired by Noble and merging with the latter’s TSSi business to collectively provide integrated systems, data analytics and more offerings to customers. The executive also discuss...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a Global Ordnance division will compete for orders under a potential $750 million contract to supply special ammunition and weapons systems to the U.S. Army. The service branch’s procurement organization received 10 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an online solicitation, the Department of Defense...
Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of fed...
Cybereason confidentially filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering that could give the Boston-based security startup a valuation of more than $5 billion, Reuters reported Monday. Reuters cited sources that say the cybersecurity company has finalized the underwriters for the IPO, which could kick off in the second half of 2022. Cyber...
