The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
Todd Helfrich, vice president of federal sales at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said government agencies should advance cyber resiliency, adopt industry best practices and reduce the identity attack surface to protect endpoints and networks from cyber adversaries. Helfrich wrote that cyber resiliency has been highlighted by the release of guidance by the N...
Leonardo has agreed to sell the air traffic management business of its Selex ES subsidiary to an Indra Sistemas company for an undisclosed sum under a sales transaction that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. ATM focuses on developing, producing and offering en route navigation and surveillance technologies as well as...
Matthew Edwards, a two-decade defense and intelligence market veteran, has been appointed vice president of Axient‘s Navy business segment and president of the company’s SEG subsidiary. He previously led businesses that provide products and services to government customers such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office...
Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...
Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), said government agencies should consider identity as critical infrastructure and modernize their identity and access management to provide better user experiences. “Agencies can assess the state of their identity infrastructure by continually asking whether they are delivering th...
The U.S. Army has asked industry stakeholders to submit proposals for a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to enable the service to accelerate modernization priorities and innovation to support warfighters in multidomain operations. The Army Modernization Priorities program is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract ...
Kirk Riggs, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a former executive at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been appointed vice president of strategy and business development operations within the intelligence group at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), according to a LinkedIn post published Monday. While at L3Harris, Riggs oversaw similar functions under the company&#...
L3Harris Technologies‘ (NYSE: LHX) board of directors has approved a plan to repurchase another $3.0 billion of its common stock. The Melbourne, Florida-based defense technology supplier said Friday the additional stock re-acquisition will bring total buyback authorization for L3Harris to approximately $4.5 billion. Stockholders of record as o...
