GovCon Wire Events’ timely Information Security and Innovation Forum on Wednesday brought together prominent figures across government and industry to discuss how public and private sector organizations are working together to better fortify the United States’ critical information security and cybersecurity capabilities in response to the heigh...
CyberPoint3 Holdings, a wholly owned company of Cyber Capital Partners, has acquired Point3 Security and P3F as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity technologies and capabilities meant to address challenges facing critical infrastructure and national security communities. “The acquisitions of Point3 Security and P3F support...
Rumblings of frustration surrounding the Department of Defense’s information technology shortcomings quickly grew into a roar last month as military service branch operators, warfighters and federal leaders took to social media to shed light on the severity of the department’s widespread IT issues and the urgency of solving them. In January, Mi...
True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned cyber security consulting firm, announced on Monday that Joseph Brinker, the former Chief of the Security Enablers Division within the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), has joined the company as its Director of Federal Services. A dynamic leader with more than 15 years leading cutting-edge federal tec...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is offering agencies and companies access to an online catalog of tools and services meant to help organizations manage cybersecurity risks. CISA said Friday the webpage will initially feature resources from the agency, open source contributors and Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative members from bo...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $252 million follow-on contract to produce a man-portable system for U.S. Marine Corps personnel to recognize and locate targets. The company will provide low-rate initial and full-rate production services to USMC’s Next Generation Handheld Targeting System program, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Eun Young Choi, most recently senior counsel to the deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, has been named the first director of the national cryptocurrency enforcement team at DOJ. She will lead NCET in identifying, investigating and pursuing DOJ’s cases that involve the criminal use of digital currencies and other digital assets, e...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business has secured a potential 10-year, $99.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform sustaining engineering work on avionics of the E-3 airborne early warning and control system. Collins Aerospace will support recurring and non-recurring AWACS avionics maintenance requirements...
Last week, Senators introduced a new legislative package that combines aspects of the Cyber Incident Reporting act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2021 and the Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act into a more comprehensive, robust and up-to-date bill that is expected to be more likely to pass into law than each...
Executive Mosaic has introduced Christian Brose, chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, as the latest inductee into the 2022 Wash100 for his thought leadership in autonomous and artificial intelligence-based defense systems. This marks his entry into the premier group of executives who contribute to growth and innovation in the government con...
