The two main concepts on which the U.S. Army’s cyber team is concentrated in order to protect its information are time and scale. Responding to potential threats in “machine time” in order to diminish the blast radius of a harmful event is crucial, as is executing cybersecurity that matches the breadth of resources in need of...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) reported Tuesday that the space and intelligence work-related contracts it booked for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 reached an estimated $950 million. The contract awards include projects in space systems, intelligence, joint all-domain command and control as well as model-based systems e...
Over the last eight-plus years, Bill Webner has helped information technology services and consulting company Capgemini better serve federal customers in the national security, defense, civil and health sectors. Through his work as vice president of the organization’s Government Solutions arm, Webner has overseen digital transformation e...
Cybersecurity platforms provider Cycurion has agreed to merge with blank check company Western Acquisition Ventures (Nasdaq: WAVS) in a transaction that would take the former public and give the combined entity a total pro forma equity value of about $271.63 million. The boards of directors of Cycurion and Western have unanimously approved the deal ...
Nick Heudecker, senior director of market strategy at Cribl, said the 2021 cybersecurity executive order has pushed federal agencies to take a closer look at zero trust, endpoint detection and response and supply chain security and implement a layered security architecture. Heudecker wrote that the EO has resulted in the development of the Office of...
As the cloud increasingly dominates both public and private sector operations, its impact on procurement has become a topic of focus in recent years. According to experts in the field, migrating to the cloud offers numerous benefits across process burdens, costs and timing. Michael Tocci, president of Paperless Innovations, elaborated on the perks o...
Chris Montferret, a more than two-decade veteran at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, was elevated to the role of vice president of strategy and business development for the maritime and strategic systems unit. In a LinkedIn post, he announced his executive move within General Dynamics Mission Systems and welcomed the oppo...
The governments of Norway and U.S. have signed an approximately $494 million agreement to equip the Norwegian air force’s F-35 aircraft fleet with an updated variant of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. Norway will acquire AMRAAM-D missiles, manufactured by Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), to boost the F-35 aircraft’s senso...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as...
