Todd Stottlemyer, a former executive at Inova Health System, has been named CEO of health information technology firm CNSI. Alex Nivelle, a principal at A&M Capital, said in a statement published Wednesday Stottlemyer™s appointment comes as CNSI aims to advance innovation and growth efforts. A&M Capital acquired a controlling inter...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 5, 2018 ” Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system has achieved recertification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in line with the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 9. The company said Nov. 8 the FIPS 140-2 security certificat...
A new McAleese & Associates report says several government and military leaders discussed some of the Pentagon™s technology priorities at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, talked about cybersecurity and the need for strong cyber defenses to counter ...
Niels Jensen, senior vice president of Americas sales at ForeScout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has said federal agencies should have visibility of their internet-of-things-based devices in order to protect their network infrastructure from cyber threats. He wrote that information technology administrators at agencies should deploy tools designed to...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the two-day Reagan National Defense Forum that kicked off Friday in California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) CEO Marillyn Hewson; Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy; Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security busine...
Vertex Aerospace has won a one-year, $97.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to manage and sustain the base supply of T-1A Jayhawk trainers for the Air Education and Training Command. The company will support 178 T-1As stationed at air bases in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi as well as at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida through&nbs...
United Technologies Corp.‘s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a one-year, $399.8M contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command to provide sustainment services for the F-35 aircraft propulsion technology. Pratt & Whitney’s military engines division will continue to sustain F135 propuls...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 30, 2018 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has received certification for the inclusion of additional Fortinet Security Fabric offerings in the Defense Department‘s list of products cleared for deployment in DoD networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 9. The company said Nov. 8 at least 50 more Security Fabric p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 29, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said the company is working with Silicon Valley partners to identify commercial technologies that could potentially be applied for military use, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. Aviation Today reported Nov. 1 t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 27, 2018 ” Dave Rey, executive vice president of Salesforce‘s (NYSE: CRM) public sector business in North America, has urged the government to include customer experience among the goals in its planned update to the federal cloud computing policy, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 30. Rey, a two-time Wash100 awardee, ...
