President Joe Biden intends to nominate Andrew Hunter, director of the Center for Strategic International Studies’ defense-industrial initiatives group, to be the next U.S. Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, the White House said Friday. Hunter will oversee research, development and acquisition programs through...
Brian Hale, formerly assistant director of the office of public affairs at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., has joined Tysons, Virginia-based cloud-native risk analytics platforms provider QOMPLX as vice president for global market development and public private partnerships. He will oversee outreach efforts to form partnerships in key markets,...
Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), said government agencies should adopt data encryption capabilities to protect classified information from breaches and one of the encryption innovations they can use now is confidential computing. “Confidential computing works by having the CPU reserve a section of memory...
Recent developments in anti-satellite and space-based weaponry by foreign adversaries has prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to rapidly develop and deploy secure space intelligence sensors that will arm military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages over adversaries. During Potomac Officers Club’s Space ...
Henry Fleischmann, director of government, education and healthcare solutions architecture at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said agencies seeking to protect critical assets from cyberattacks should adopt an end-to-end security framework that includes a zero trust approach. Fleischmann wrote that with zero trust, organizations should assume that a breach withi...
A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study says government information technology leaders said they expect agencies to make cybersecurity spending a priority for fiscal year 2022 amid the recent cyberattacks. IBM said Thursday it commissioned Morning Consult to survey more than 500 current and former U.S. government IT decision makers in June and found that more...
Alan Shaffer, former deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, has joined the government security committee of semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries. He joins a panel that advises the Malta, New York-based company’s management team on government, political affairs and security matters,...
NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal propulsion system that could be used in future deep space exploration missions. Each company will receive a potential 12-year, $5 million contract from DOE’s Id...
Ensco has elevated company veterans Kevin Pruett and Jeffrey Stevens to senior vice president roles following the creation of two new business groups focused on supporting aerospace and engineering and surface transportation initiatives of government, commercial and international customers. Boris Nejikovsky, president of Ensco, said in a statement p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2021 — BlueHalo, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, aims to expand its space manufacturing capabilities through a planned acquisition of Design and Development Engineering Services, a developer of radiation-hardened, space-qualified systems, ExecutiveBiz reported July 6. Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHal...
