Carey Smith, president and CEO of Parsons and three-time Wash100 Award winner, sat with Peter Arment, senior research analyst for Baird, during Wednesday’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference to provide a look into Parsons’ growth strategies, national security efforts and the influence that emerging technologies are having on business and t...
On Wednesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense and Intelligence: IT Modernization Forum, which gathered elite defense, intelligence and commercial sector leaders to divulge the technological priorities, key strategies and innovative initiatives driving the Defense Intelligence Agency’s digital transformation goals as rapid information ...
Sean Berg, president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, said agencies looking to implement zero trust architectures should tailor their security strategy to individual users and understand users’ behavior. Berg wrote that implementing security policies that consider all users as equally risky could impede the abil...
As if being an event organizer isn’t challenging enough, the COVID-19 pandemic happened. The event management industry is one of the countless other businesses heavily impacted by the global pandemic. Live conferences and face-to-face gatherings were brought to a screeching halt and were either postponed or canceled. So to adapt to this sudden cha...
Joseph Early, former chief digital and data officer at the Department Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office, has joined Cornerstone Defense as deputy chief technology officer. The former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander will work with the company’s leadership and technical teams in efforts to bring differentiated platforms to the government...
Nick Warner, chief operating officer at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said federal agencies should look at the potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other autonomous capabilities in protecting critical assets and sensitive data of citizens from cyberthreats and accelerating the detection of cyber vulnerabilities. “These automations a...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has separated its cloud-based cybersecurity product development unit into an independent entity that aims to help customers secure information technology assets. Booz Allen said Monday it will retain a minority interest in SnapAttack and serve as the primary channel partner for the standalone company’s federal c...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has agreed to acquire Planetary Systems Corp. in a cash-and-stock transaction to further build up its space systems business and end-to-end offerings across launch and space hardware markets. Rocket Lab said Monday it agreed to pay $42 million in cash and 1,720,841 in shares of common stock to buy PSC...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement to provide high revisit satellite imaging data in support of NASA’s Earth observation research efforts. “Helping NASA-backed researchers broaden their understanding around critical changes in the Earth’s ecosystems, oceanography, geographic and polar sciences is vitally ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2021 — Carahsoft Technology will use its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and OMNIA Partners contracts to market Flashpoint-made cyber threat intelligence offerings to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “We look forward to working with Flashpoint and our reseller partners t...
