A global health crisis is what it took for agencies under the Department of Defense to consider adopting a unified enterprise that can support centralized systems for email and office applications. Danielle Metz, deputy CIO for information enterprise at the DOD, said in a June 1 interview with Federal News Network that the experience of...
Software research and development company Galois has formed an independent company that will aim to produce integrated chip technologies. Galois said Friday its technology projects on field-programmable gate arrays, cyber-physical systems and application-specific integrated circuits serve as the foundation of work at the new entity named Niobium Mic...
SAS looks to streamline select operational processes, enhance financial reporting structure, increase focus on segments with growth potentials and begin other preparations for initial public offering by 2024. Jim Goodnight, cofounder and CEO of SAS, said in a statement published Thursday the company’s move toward IPO preparedness is built on i...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) posted flat internal revenue of $9.2 billion for the second quarter of its 2021 fiscal year and net earnings of $737 million, a 17.9 percent increase from the same period last year. The Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor said Wednesday its earnings were $2.61 per diluted share for the quarter and cash...
Data center colocation services provider Cyxtera Technologies will start trading Friday on Nasdaq after it completed its merger with blank check company Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAC). Both parties first announced the $3.4 billion merger deal in February and Cyxtera said Thursday SVAC’s stockholders approved the combination durin...
The White House has released a national security memorandum to improve the cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure. The memo announces the establishment of the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to facilitate the deployment of technologies meant to provide threat detection and visibility and cyber response capabilities in o...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $482.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture lot 35 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for domestic and international defense customers. The award exercises pre-priced options on an existing contract for the production of AMRAAMs, telemetry systems and spares, the...
Fourteen companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $2.41 billion contract to help the U.S. Army operate, modernize and secure a network of government-controlled facilities for hosting large-scale military cyber mission force events. Contractors will compete for individual orders to provide event planning and execution, site security, informat...
Larry Prior, an operating executive for The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, will formally join the board of QinetiQ Group on Aug. 2 as an independent non-executive director. Neil Johnson, chairman of Qinetiq, said in statement Tuesday that Prior will bring to the company’s board his professional experience i...
Kimberly Lebak, an executive in Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named as head of an HII and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) joint venture that performs cleanup work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. HII said Tuesday that Lebak will oversee the $1.4 ...
