Within the proverbial dust cloud of the global fray, adversaries of all kinds abound. Could an antagonistic government take down our power grid or cripple our infrastructure through cyber assault? Are agricultural vulnerabilities more of a threat than a pathogen epidemic? Should the possibility of chemical attack be more of a concern to our troops...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2017 ” Manish Parikh, vice president of business development and strategy for BAE Systems‘ U.S. operations, has said cloud computing, cyber hardening and data analytics are the key technology areas that present growth opportunities for the company’s intelligence and security sector. “The futur...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2017 ” Gregory Garrett, head of international cybersecurity at professional services firm BDO USA, has said companies should work to bolster cyber education and training programs amid the emergence of threat actors such as the “Dragonfly” cyber espionage group, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2017 ” Vinny Sica, vice president and general manager for mission solutions at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has said the business unit is working to build on its integrated offerings for international customers as the space industry continues to transform and the domain becomes congested, contested and competit...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential three-year, $173 million task order from the U.S. Army to develop simulation and modeling tools for sensor and imaging systems. The company said Thursday it will support the Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate under the task order that was awarded through the Rapi...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $599.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to conduct preliminary design activities to convert a pair of 747-8 aircraft into presidential planes. The modification covers the initial design of the future Air Force One fleet that includes the integration of a mission comm...
Manik Rath, formerly a senior vice president at LMI, has been named chief operating officer at Vienna, Virginia-based human capital and information technology services provider C2 Technologies. Rath has more than two decades™ experience in human capital, IT and management consulting in the public sector in support of intelligence and defense ag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TnvnLCTj10 Fort Bliss™ Special Operations Recruitment Battalion hosted a fitness and team-building competition in honor of fallen hero – Green Beret, and El Paso native – Staff Sgt. Joshua Mills. Staff Sgt. Mills died, Sep. 16, 2009, after his vehicle struck an IED while conducting a mounted patrol i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2017 ” Greg Souchack, partner for managed services and cloud solutions at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) global business services unit, has said the company’s Watson artificial intelligence technology will work to help the U.S. Army perform an analysis of the cost of transporting military equipment...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. President and CEO Ed Sheehan Jr. is a speaker at the Nuclear Energy Leadership Summit and Showcase in October and will discuss the company’s work at the Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing in Pennsylvania, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The two-...
