Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), said agencies can avoid complexity by leveraging the same security platform that they already have deployed to protect their perimeter, their mobile devices, and their data centers in the cloud-based services they are moving to. He refers to these environments as data ...
Michael Huerta, formerly administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been named a senior consultant for Serco Group‘s aviation business in the U.S. He will provide strategic guidance and play a role in the development of Serco Inc.‘s global aviation strategy in his new position, the company said Friday. The Reston, Va....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 30, 2018 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has received certification for the inclusion of additional Fortinet Security Fabric offerings in the Defense Department‘s list of products cleared for deployment in DoD networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 9. The company said Nov. 8 at least 50 more Security Fabric p...
Several top government contractors and industry experts attended Baird™s 2018 Government Services and Defense Conference. œ2018 has been a transformational year of M&A at scale in the government services and defense market, Jean Stack, managing director for global investment banking at Baird, told GovConWire. Stack added that she ...
NASA has awarded nine companies positions on a potential 10-year, $2.6B contract to deliver scientific instruments and other payloads to the Moon. Contractors will compete for payload integration, operations and other delivery support services under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, NASA said Friday. The awardees are: Astrobotic Tec...
Natasha McLean, a 17-year veteran of Serco Inc., has been appointed managing director of the professional and technology services contractor™s Canadian business. McLean will report to David Cummins, a senior vice president at Serco Inc., and oversee business development strategies and all operations across defense, citizen services and transpor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 29, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said the company is working with Silicon Valley partners to identify commercial technologies that could potentially be applied for military use, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. Aviation Today reported Nov. 1 t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 29, 2018 ” AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has received a potential $23.5M contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development‘s South America regional office in Peru to drive measures that counter harmful infrastructure and extractive activities in the Amazon, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. The company said...
Jason Albanese, formerly vice president of business development for operations and logistics solutions at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed senior VP of business development within the company’s health group. He will be responsible for overseeing the unit’s business strategy, establishing strategic partnerships and mainta...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has won a potential $479.1M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army to produce augmented reality technology prototypes for potential use in military training and battlefield missions. A contract award notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps says the company will provide hardware, software and associated i...
