U.S. Cyber Command leaders say they learned valuable, specific and applicable lessons at last year™s Cyber Flag exercise including that it’s not always necessary to deploy the whole 39-person cyber protection team, or CPT. “There’s real traction that happens from these lessons learned,” an exercise leader told C4ISRNet, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Security Service for compliance with security requirements under the National Industrial Security Program, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company sa...
After North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Monday, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. That meeting will likely be held Wednesday with the 15-member council, as concerns mount that the regime is developing an inter-continental ballistic missile that ca...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-FH1Gn2Ls On Friday, June 30th, at a ceremony at the Manhattan campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ New York Harbor Health Care System, two veterans living with arm amputations became the first recipients of a new generation of prosthetic limb that promises them unprecedented, near-natural arm and han...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys™ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business, has urged federal agencies to conduct a reassessment of their information technology governance frameworks to drive modernization efforts under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Pu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” Lisa Mascolo, managing director for the U.S. federal sector at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) global business services segment, has said the collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Department in updating the former’s electronic health records system works to transf...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will provide information technology support and associated services to government agencies in Maryland under a potential $2.5 billion multi-award contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the contract from Maryland’s...
Weekly Roundup June 26 – June 30 2017 A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we saw the unveiling of the House Armed Services Committee™s $696.5 billion defense authorization bill. The draft, titled 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was revealed on the 26th and asks for $28.5 billion more than ...
Austin Adams, vice president of public sector at San Mateo, California-based open-source software provider Alfresco, has said government agencies should address œcontent chaos through the adoption of a centralized platform designed to process and store documents. Adams wrote that such a platform works to help government personnel access, share ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAuWnK5uF4 Marines in Syria show ISIS why artillery is the king of battle. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Matthew Callahan)...
