Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a previous Wash100 Award winner, took her oath of office as the new chair of the Defense Business Board during a ceremony held Tuesday at the Pentagon. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, swore in...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit to bring together some of the most influential executives from the federal government and industry to explore the impact that 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well as future programs, plans and priorities as the nation aligns with emerging technology. Jay...
The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic — is bringing together experts from the government, industry and nonprofit sector at a Sept. 22 virtual event for an in-depth discussion of climate change. Panelists at POC’s “Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change in Industry, Government and Society” forum inc...
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to collaborate with different agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cyber Information Security Agency to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives for the upcoming 2022 elections, Signal reported Wednesday. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the Cybercom who serves concurrently as the director of the Na...
Renee McPherson, director of the South Central Climate Adaptation Science at University of Oklahoma, will keynote a Sept. 22 virtual event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss one of the most important environmental issues facing our planet. Aside from her role at the SC CASC, McPherson also serves as associate professor of geography...
Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in a Sept. 21 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to discuss the role of threat intelligence in rooting out national security issues. GCW’s Cybersecurity in National Security Summit will feature two separate...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has acquired Tracepoint, a digital forensics and incident response support provider, for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity platforms and services and advance its entry into critical technology areas as part of a capital deployment strategy. Tracepoint is a Fredericksburg, Virginia-based compa...
Titania has introduced a new tool designed to help companies automate the assessment of their network security practices in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The new module is part of the company’s Nipper software that looks for vulnerabilities in firewalls, routers and switches and o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2021 — Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s (NYSE: CLDR) government solutions business, said that agencies should take advantage of current tools to manage, analyze and secure data across hybrid information technology environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 30. He told FedScoop in a video interview that underst...
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded several companies contracts worth more than $100 million combined to build technologies that could help reduce aircraft’s fuel consumption, noise and emissions. FAA said Friday the awards are part of the third phase of the agency’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise program, a public-priv...
