Federal Advisory Partners, a Sagewind Capital portfolio company, has bought Universal Consulting Services for an undisclosed sum to further expand its client base and digital service capabilities in support of customers in the federal market. “As demand for modernization and digital transformation accelerates across the federal sector, the need fo...
Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He discussed the modernization of network and platform capabilities through AWS Cloud, the global communications and cloud advancements, the development of the future of wa...
Now, more than ever, warfighters, operators and service members need reliable, secure access to data in order to make a myriad of critical and timely decisions in today’s rapidly evolving combatant environment. The United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in September 2021 highlighted crucial shortfalls and problems in data access capabilities...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published a document that identifies and projects the intelligence community’s science and technology needs from fiscal year 2022 through FY 2026 and is soliciting feedback and ideas on emerging technologies and new approaches to meet these S&T needs. The National Intelligence Science and...
Benjamin Cushing, former director of the federal health business at Red Hat, has assumed a new role as chief architect for the same unit, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. He served as chief technology officer at behavioral health information technology company MDLogix before his appointment at Red Hat three years ago. The software provider became part ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $3.69 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy deploy portable radios and ancillary parts. The service branch is procuring handheld, manpack, vehicle-mounted and base-mounted devices that have been approved by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Department of Defense sai...
Geopolitical tensions are rising around the world across all domains, and as competition escalates, border security becomes increasingly more critical to the United States’ national security capabilities and its strategic position in the context of other global powers. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection adapted to navigate new challenges posed...
Climate experts from government, industry and academia convened Thursday to discuss the challenges, opportunities, previous achievements and future goals surrounding the United States’ climate change mitigation efforts in the context of global climate progress and in accordance with the 2016 Paris Agreement. Steve Ambrose, chief climate scientist ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Boyden Rohner, Stuart Kippelman of Parsons and Matthew Swenson of the Department of Homeland Security all convened on Wednesday to speak on the complex facets of cybersecurity and the implications each has on an organization’s information security capabilities in today’s evolving threat en...
Intelsat has secured $6.7 billion in new funds and reduced its debt by more than 50 percent after the satellite operator completed its financial restructuring process. The company said Wednesday its new financing sources are secured notes, a term loan and a revolving credit facility. Under a reorganization plan, Intelsat lowered its debt from about...
