Michael Baker, staff VP and chief information security officer at General Dynamics Information Technology, served as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during the Potomac Officers Club’ 2021 CMMC Forum on Wednesday. The following panelists discussed cybersecurity maturity in an era of mounting vulnerabilities featuring Karlton Johnson of...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday, June 15th. If you missed the Data Innovation Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting the GovCon Wire Events Archive. The Data Innova...
Forcepoint has agreed to buy U.K.-based Deep Secure for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings for governments, critical infrastructure and enterprises worldwide. Forcepoint said Tuesday it expects the transaction to be completed in August, pending regulatory review and other customary closing conditions. “The ad...
The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
The U.S. Army recently unveiled some of its initiatives to adopt cloud computing platforms in a push to transform the branch’s information technology processes. At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the Department of Defense rolled out the Commercial Virtual Remote platform to facilitate online collaboration for telework arrangements across it...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the company’’s 2021 GovCon Success Guide and GovCon Expert, published her latest article on Tuesday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. After exploring the challenges facing supply chain and GovCon executives as the compliance requirements, such as CMMC...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2021 — Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said federal information technology modernization efforts need a holistic strategy that encompasses “security, visibility, realiability and access,” ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. In a Link...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2021 — Aaron Burciaga, vice president of artificial intelligence at ECS, said a responsible approach to AI product development could encourage federal agencies to adopt the technology for data science applications, ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. “The introduction of new AI/ML models within federal operations demand...
Kevin Heald, senior vice president of the information exploitation division at Novetta, will speak at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum as panel moderator. He will lead a discussion on efforts at the service branch to manage and transform its information technology operations. Heald joined Novetta’s SVP ranks in ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has initiated measures on how the Department of Defense should work toward addressing China-related security challenges. The directive builds on recommendations from the Pentagon’s China Task Force, which launched in February and delivered an initial assessment in April, the department said Wednesday. DOD collabo...
