
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has supported the final data transmission of NASA‘s Cassini spacecraft before the Saturn orbiter ended its 13-year mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday it built the transponder or radio that Cassini had used to send images and other data about i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP) will collaborate with technology investment company C5 Accelerate in support of a business accelerator program for companies in the national security market, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The innovation partnership will utilize the latter’s data management and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 20, 2017 Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) seeks to support startup companies and other partners in government, academia and local communities with an estimated $1 billion investment that is aimed to advance the development of artificial intelligence technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Our belief is that AI will br...
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has said she has no concerns on Northrop Grummans (NYSE: NOC) proposal to acquire Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) and that the service branch intends to monitor the transactions progress, Defense News reported Tuesday. Obviously, we watch these things and make sure that no matter [what] happens when c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 19, 2017 Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the company sees continued opportunities in the areas of in-orbit satellite servicing, small satellites and space robotics. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Wednesday&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 19, 2017 Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMCs federal business, has said the federal government should work to centralize non-mission-critical information technology systems in order to reduce the network attack surface, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 12. MeriTalk reported Sept. 11&...
Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential 10-year, $140 million contract to provide information technology services for a U.S. Army Installation Management Command program that supports military children and youth. Serco Inc. said Monday it will help IMCOM engineer, design, install and maintain technology...
Tom Ruff, vice president of public sector at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said government agencies should establish a comprehensive defense-in-depth strategy to protect networks from distributed denial-of-service attacks, cross-site scripting and oth...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has agreed to buy Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology platforms provider InfoZen through a $180 million cash transaction that would grow ManTech’s managed cloud services and information technology offerings for the federal civilian market. The companies expect to close the deal in October, ...