On Assignment concurrently wrapped up its $775 million purchase of Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider ECS Federal and adopted the name ASGN Inc. (NYSE: ASGN) to reflect the combined entity™s business. The companies first announced the transaction in January and ASGN said Monday ECS will continue its ...
Eric Swanson, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Comprehensive Health Services as director of international operations. He will report to Casper Jones, chief operating officer and senior vice president for international operations, Comprehensive Health Services said Monday. Swanson help build up the company™s international o...
Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies should implement an adaptive response strategy to immediately address evolving cyber threats, automate their security processes and equip multi-layered security platforms with a defensive strategy. Davis wrote that the key to the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfF121mFiQ Defense One’s Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber explains what we know so far about an experimental U.S. military project using artificial intelligence. The program’s name: Project Maven. // Written and narrated by Marcus Weisgerber; produced by Ben Watson. Read more at http://www.defense...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 2, 2018 ” Amazon Web Services has completed an independent assessment aimed at allowing Australian government agencies to self-accredit their protected data workloads in the cloud under the AWS Sydney region, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. AWS worked with the Australian defense department™s signals directorat...
A General Atomics business unit will provide fiscal 2017 configuration of the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under a potential three-year, $295.7 million contract. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. is scheduled to complete work under the sole-source contract by July 29, 2021, the Defense Department said Thur...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RfzvMnrDGM The focus of this swarm sprint is on enabling improved swarm autonomy through enhancements of swarm platforms and/or autonomy elements, with the operational backdrop of utilizing a diverse swarm of 50 air and ground robots to isolate an urban objective within an area of two square city blocks over a missio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2018 ” L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) will implement Microsoft™s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government cloud platform to transform its global information technology operations, under a five-year strategic collaboration agreement with the technology provider, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. L3 said Tuesd...
Poland and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have signed an agreement for the company to build Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles and associated equipment for the Polish military. Lockheed said Wednesday Poland will be its fifth international customer to procure PAC-3 MSE missiles. The system is designed ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 28, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Cyber Kill Chain framework supported the Department of Homeland Security in analyzing alleged state-sponsored Russian hackers’ cyber attacks on U.S. government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical ...
