The Cyber Bytes Foundation has partnered with Pavilion Data Systems to deploy data storage and transmission equipment for use by the nonprofit organization’s cybersecurity programs. Pavilion said Tuesday it will provide the HyperParallel Data Platform to the American Cyber League program, a consortium of companies at CBF’s Quantico Cyber...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2021 — The U.S. Navy used General Atomics-built MQ-9A Block 5 and MQ-9B SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft to demonstrate teaming between manned and unmanned military platforms at the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 exercise, ExecutiveBiz reported April 29. “We successfully demonstra...
The Department of the Treasury’s office of foreign assets control has asked information on potential sources of commercial online tools that could be used to track transactions involving Bitcoins and other virtual currencies, Nextgov reported Friday. Tracing blockchain-based transactions will help OFAC’s office of global targeting collect attrib...
A Capstone Partners report shows that mergers and acquisitions in defense electronics, space and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance markets reached over 70 transactions in 2020, exceeding the deal volume recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The report attributed the year-over-year increase in deal ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — Amazon Web Services has designated ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) two competencies for the latter’s work to help government clients manage cloud technology and infrastructure deployments, ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of ManTech and head of the company’s innovat...
Veritas Capital has closed its purchase of Perspecta and will integrate the latter with its portfolio company Peraton to create a combined entity focused on delivering enterprise information technology and mission capability integration support to federal, state and local government agencies. Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO at Peraton and a 20...
PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) reported $748.6 million in revenue for the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year, up 21.3 percent from the prior year period. The company attributed the $131.3 million increase to acquisition-related revenue of $88.8 million and contract awards worth $42.5 million. Charlie Peiffer, interim president and CEO of PAE, said the company...
Capt. Ben Van Buskirk, director of NavalX, will join the “Next Digital Domain- Driving UX, Data and Platform Success” panel at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event. Van Buskirk assumed his current role on March 19 and lead the organization that aims to scale non-traditional agility approaches across the Department of the Navy workforce. Previ...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
Andrew Underhill, formerly chief technology officer at GovernmentCIO, has joined B3 Group as chief technologist for initiatives under the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Digital Transformation Center contract. He brings two decades of business and technology development and professional services experience in the U.S. and European markets, B3 ...
