Kris Lovejoy, former CEO of network security technology provider BluVector, has joined EY as global cybersecurity leader. She succeeds Paul van Kessel, who is due to retire in June, and will oversee EY™s cybersecurity operations and service offerings in her new position, the company said Wednesday. Lovejoy pre...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 13, 2019 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of Cloudera‘s (NYSE: CLDR) U.S. public sector business, has said the company resulting from the recently completed merger between Cloudera and Hortonworks will work to develop a “cloud-native, open source unified platform” designed to e...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 13, 2019 ” Randy James, senior vice president and general manager for the enterprise cybersecurity and resilience division at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), has said collaboration between leaders across defense, intelligence, national security and government agencies is key to advance coordinated mission assurance, ExecutiveBiz...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) booked multiple contracts worth more than $390M combined during its third quarter to help U.S. government clients engineer and integrate classified systems. The company said Tuesday it will perform work under the contracts for 10 years if all options are exercised. Mac Curtis, president and CEO and Perspecta and a 2019 Wa...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has received a potential five-year, $491M blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support DISA™s Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management-Next Generation program. GDIT said Tuesday it will continue to operate, manage, deploy a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 ” Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager of Forcepoint, has said the risk-adaptive approach employed by the Transportation Security Agency’s TSA PreCheck airport screening program exemplifies a way for federal agencies to address growing cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 1. Berg w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) looks to consolidate its 31 offices across the Washington, D.C., area following its acquisition of Engility in an effort to optimize the integrated company’s operations and infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Bisnow reported Feb. 4 th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 ” A CAE-built (NYSE: CAE) flight simulation platform for General Atomics‘ Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft has received approval from Italy’s air armaments and airworthiness directorate for use at Amendola Air Base, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CAE said Feb. 5 its&nb...
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has agreed to purchase Endeavor Robotics from Arlington Capital Partners for about $385M in cash to make its entry into the market for unmanned ground vehicles for military, critical infrastructure and public safety applications. FLIR said Monday it expects the acquisition to close in the first quarter of 2019 a...
William Welch, formerly president and chief operating officer of Duo Security, has been named co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity. He will serve in the role alongside retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander and help drive IronNet’s commercial efforts to expand operations worldwide, the company said Monday. Welch previously held senior lea...
