TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 4, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has moved forward to the final assembly and design phase of a NASA program aimed to develop spacecraft that will work to redirect the path of an asteroid in support of planetary defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The lab said Thursday it rec...
Gary Wootten, vice president of public sector at SpringCM, has said agencies that aim to automate records management and improve collaboration should adopt a cloud-based records retention schedule. Wootten wrote that implementing such a schedule would help agencies classify records based on retention period, event or case type while complying with d...
Mark Kelton, a retired senior executive of the CIA, has joined DynCorp International as senior vice president of national security solutions at the McLean, Va.-based government services contractor. He brings 34 years of intelligence operations, international security, insider threat detection, counterintelligence and crisis management experience to ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2018 ” Systems Planning and Analysis unveiled earlier this month that Pamela Melroy, a former Space Shuttle commander at NASA and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined the company’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 21. “Colonel Melroy brings unique and extensive experie...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 29, 2018 ” BAE Systems and Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) have entered into a partnership to integrate security and cloud computing technologies in support of network monitoring for federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 16. The Splunk Enterprise software and machine learning c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 29, 2018 ” Eric Trexler, vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales at Forcepoint, has said the integration of cybersecurity requirements as a key part of federal information technology is centered on the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Continuous Dia...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 28, 2018 ” SSL will build antenna subsystems to help the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center ensure secured tactical satellite communications under a deal with the Space Enterprise Consortium, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 17. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) said Aug. 16 its SSL subsidiary wi...
Barton Phillips, vice president of enterprise sales at DocuSign (Nasdaq: DOCU), has said agencies that aim to manage document workflows and accelerate document reviews should adopt cloud-based tools. Phillips wrote that such cloud platforms work to help agencies establish a digital process that helps them prepare, sign, store and route documents fro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 27, 2018 ” BAE Systems has entered into a partnership with computer software firm Flexera in an effort to provide government agencies a hybrid cloud environment built on the latter’s asset and license management technology and the federated cloud system that BAE jointly developed with Dell EMC, Exe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 27, 2018 ” Amazon Web Services has launched a two-phase, 110-day program that seeks to train public sector partners on how to conduct cloud readiness assessments and develop tailored action plans for cloud migration, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the AWS Public Sector Partner Tr...
