Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
Collibra and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) are treating data as a strategic asset to help government agencies analyze and gain actionable intelligence from data to meet mission objectives, advance innovation and achieve efficiency. “Collibra helps both government agencies and companies of all sizes build an internal data marketplace that makes ocean...
Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, will lead a panel discussion on cyber defense initiatives across the public and private sectors at an upcoming GovCon Wire forum. Renko has more than 35 years of professional experience with a focus on cyber investigations and security programs. His government career includes prior roles as direct...
John Zangardi, president of technology services contractor Redhorse, has joined the board of directors of cybersecurity company Forcepoint. He brings to the board more than three decades of experience as an information technology leader in the government and private sector, Forcepoint said Thursday. “I’m thrilled to join the Forcepoint Board...
Ben Cushing of Red Hat and Shane McNamee of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) said their companies have teamed up to come up with an open standards, open-source technology-based system that is built around patients and meant to help health care providers eliminate barriers to delivering medical care to patients. Cushing and McNamee discussed HealthConcours...
President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
Jenn Azzolina of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Michael Daly of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) said the two companies have teamed up to develop a technology platform to help government agencies glean insights from large volumes of data while ensuring data security using plug-and-play analytics and zero trust approach. Azzolina and Daly wrote th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2021 — Perspecta has been granted the third-party assessment organization status under the State Risk and Authorization Management Program and is now authorized to help state and local agencies evaluate cloud information technology offerings for their use, ExecutiveBiz reported April 8. “StateRAMP is bringing sta...
With the prevailing and emerging cybersecurity threats to U.S. critical infrastructure, the public and private sectors work to fortify national security systems’ defense against malicious actors in the cyber domain. GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12 will feature Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency̵...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, which marks the first time she has received the most coveted and prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). Knausenberger has been recognized as one of the most significant execut...
