Two new Deltek reports say that information technology modernization, data proliferation and the current national security threat landscape are among the factors that will drive IT investments within defense and intelligence community agencies. The company said it expects the DOD contractor addressable IT market to grow at a compound annual rate of ...
Shareholders at blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) approved Tuesday the proposed merger with Virgin Orbit and both parties expect the transaction to close before the end of December. The combined entity will adopt the name Virgin Orbit Holdings and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “VORB” upon closing of the...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
Chris Fall, former director at the Department of Energy’s science office, has joined Mitre as vice president of applied sciences for the nonprofit corporation’s research and development organization. He will oversee Mitre Labs’ R&D programs that explore quantum computing, synthetic biology, space, material science and other eme...
Jennifer Richmond, former senior vice president and general manager of Jacobs‘ (NYSE: J) national security business, has transitioned to a new role as SVP of sales within the company’s federal and environmental solutions business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. The nearly 17-year Jacobs veteran will be part of a global business organ...
Embedded Ventures has agreed to help the U.S. Space Force examine how venture capital investments can drive innovation in the space industry. The California-based VC firm said it signed a cooperative research and development agreement with USSF’s SpaceWERX organization as the military branch looks to pursue new space-based technologies through...
Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), said government agencies should adopt data encryption capabilities to protect classified information from breaches and one of the encryption innovations they can use now is confidential computing. “Confidential computing works by having the CPU reserve a section of memory...
The Atlantic Council has released a report offering recommendations for the U.S. government and its allies to maintain national security and economic competitiveness in the global economy with the use of technology. The council said Wednesday its Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data classified those recommendation...
The Cyber Bytes Foundation has partnered with Pavilion Data Systems to deploy data storage and transmission equipment for use by the nonprofit organization’s cybersecurity programs. Pavilion said Tuesday it will provide the HyperParallel Data Platform to the American Cyber League program, a consortium of companies at CBF’s Quantico Cyber...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed leader to the cybersecurity and government contracting (GovCon) sectors as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has released his latest article with the program. Previously, Brooks discussed the details in understanding cybersecurity in our sector, its massive capa...
