Rick Mastracchio, a former NASA astronaut, has joined Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) as senior director of operations for the Commercial Resupply Services program within the company’s space systems group. Orbital ATK said Monday Mastracchio will oversee the CRS mission and cargo operations teams and support other programs for the human space...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has landed a five-year, $1 billion contract to help develop the Department of Homeland Security‘s next-generation National Cybersecurity Protection System. The company said Monday the Development, Operations and Maintenance contract covers intrusion detection and prevention, automation, analytics and informa...
Lawmakers should recognize the gravity of cyber-security threats the U.S. faces, and focus on legislation and regulations to properly address vulnerabilities, warned former CIA Director John Brennan Wednesday. œPeople frequently say it™s going to take a 9/11 in the cyber realm in order for us as a country to be able to come to terms...
Hackers from Russia are America’s greatest cyber-threat, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-Md.) Addressing the 2017 Digital Nation Summit, the Maryland congressman whose district is home to the National Security Agency, said that cyber-security threats from Russia are keeping him awake at night. “I mean, we have to always look at Chi...
Charlie Sowell, a retired U.S. Navy commander and a former senior vice president at Salient CRGT, has joined Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor iWorks as chief operating officer. The more than 30-year national community veteran will lead iWorks’ business development efforts in the personnel security, insider...
Trevor DeLew, head of federal at Qualtrics, and Bobbie Browning, chief federal strategist at the company, have said federal agencies should know and understand citizen experiences to change the way they deliver services to the public. DeLew and Browning wrote that agencies should œrecognize the role their reputation plays in mission achievement...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide technical, functional, analytical, infrastructure and operations support to a Joint Staff J6 team under a potential $18 million task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will supply the internal component of antenna masts for U.S. Navy surface ships under a contract from Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary ArgonST, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The contract covers aluminum welding and assembly at CTC’s environmental technology facility in Joh...
The Department of Defense is planning to send between 3,000 to 5,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News. An announcement on the exact number from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected in the next few days or weeks. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that he cannot counter an increasingly violent, resurgent...
David Dacquino, senior vice president of defense business at Serco Group‘s Americas division, has been promoted to chief executive in a move that takes effect in mid-2017. The more than three-decade industry veteran will succeed Dan Allen, who announced in February his plans to retire after nearly four years as chairma...
