John McCormack, former CEO of security firm Forcepoint, has been appointed to serve as Fidelis Cybersecurity‘s interim president and CEO, CRN reported Monday. The two-decade security industry veteran succeeds Peter George, who has led Fidelis as chief executive since it was acquired by Los Angeles-based Marlin Equity P...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2017 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has called the launch of the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite last week works to support the company’s resilience efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. She wrote in a blog post published T...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received recognition in LinkedIn‘s list of 50 Top Companies in 2017 for its employee recruitment and retention programs, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Thursday it climbed in the rankings from 36 in 2016 to 31 this year as it continues to support workforce...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has opened a new facility in south Australia that will work to provide in-country repair and maintenance services for the Australian air force’s Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the Adelaide repai...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has completed the acquisition of maritime power-generation technology developer Open Water Power for an undisclosed value in a move that seeks to expand the former’s unmanned undersea vehicle portfolio. The Massachusetts-based company will take the name L3 Open Water Power and operate under L3’s sens...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, MAY 22, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has finalized its speaker and panelist list for the 2017 Spring Cybersecurity Summit. Cybersecurity is one of the foremost concerns of leaders in both the public and private sectors. The rapid advancement of software, hardware and techn...
John Landwehr, a vice president and public sector chief technology officer at Adobe Systems (Nasdaq: ADBE), has said government agencies should leverage analytics and open standards to change the way they deliver information and services to citizens. Landwehr wrote that analytics tools, for instance, work to facilitate access to data that citizens n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2017 ” Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said he believes integrated hybrid cloud platforms will be a spending priority for federal agencies over the next three years in line with IT modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “[Federa...
Weekly Roundup May 15 – May 19 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Last week President Trump signed an executive order to bolster our nation’s cybersecurity and maintain and strengthen U.S. cybersecurity capabilities. The order addresses the n...
Acting U.S. CIO Margie Graves said that thanks to the 2015 federal cybersecurity sprint, federal agencies were able to avoid the devastating WannaCry ransomware virus that infected more than 200,000 people and organizations in over 150 countries. When asked at the Public Sector Innovation Summit how security protocols implemented in the 30-day sprin...
