Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work approached Michael Stewart, director of the U.S. Navy’s Disruptive Capabilities Office, and asked if, given all of the rhetoric around artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, the service branch is actually making real use of the technologies and “doing something with it.” Until a f...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies positions on a potential five-year, $145.9 million blanket purchase agreement to provide Appian commercial off-the-shelf software and hardware, propriety appliances and information technology maintenance support. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego...
Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has completed its purchase of Garrison Technology as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings for customers in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries. Everfox said Wednesday it will add to its portfolio of threat protection, cross domain and insider risk platforms ...
Through two major plans this year, the Department of Defense announced its intention to take seriously the need for commercial space products. The DOD Commercial Space Integration Strategy and the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Space Strategy were released within weeks of one another in April and declared that the rapid advancements taking pla...
By Harris Quddos, Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General chief information officer and chief AI officer AI is rapidly changing the game for everyone, including public sector organizations. It’s changing the way we work and make decisions. For organizations to effectively realize value from AI, they will need to make sure their data...
Patrick Conte, vice president and general manager for the Americas at Fortanix, said government agencies that seek to protect their data from threat actors and cyber vulnerabilities should take a data-first approach to security by adopting a unified security platform that strengthens a zero trust model. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Cont...
Election season is ramping up, and as November approaches, U.S. adversaries are searching for ways to exert their influence on the outcome. To prevent the dangerous consequences of potential security vulnerabilities flying under the radar, the Intelligence Community is heavily monitoring the actions of foreign nations seeking to undermine U.S. elect...
Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) has named Josh Finke as senior vice president of public sector, responsible for driving the business’ overall go-to-market strategy and profit and loss. Finke brings to Lumen more than 25 years of technology leadership experience in artificial intelligence, cloud, communications, networking and security, the com...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division has secured a potential five-year, $209 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide development and sustainment support for the military branch’s fighter and bomber weapons systems and subsystems. The company said Monday the task order awarded under the Department of Defense Information A...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index fell 2.15% at the start of the week, then posted four straight daily gains, highlighted by the 1.74% jump Thursday. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, ended slightly higher at $5,216.43 Friday but registered a 0.03% week-on-week loss overall. Wall Street had a tumultuo...
