Graphika CEO Guyte McCord said government agencies that intend to understand online events, quickly identify threats and take action should recognize the key role of open source intelligence or OSINT tools and how such technologies could help them. “Leaders in national security are realizing they perhaps relied too heavily on classified intelligen...
Katie Schroth has been appointed vice president of air and space forces center within the national security sector at MITRE. The McLean, Virginia-based organization said Monday Schroth will develop strategies and establish priorities necessary for MITRE to deliver technical capabilities to support the Department of the Air Force mission ob...
The State Department has approved Taiwan’s two foreign military sales requests worth approximately $2 billion combined for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, AN/TPS-77 and AN/TPS-78 radar turnkey systems, related equipment and services. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday it has already notified Congress of the propo...
By Ron Lear, Vice President of Models and Frameworks at ISACA When I first read about Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency head Jen Easterly’s perspective on software quality, my primary thoughts were “yes!” and, simultaneously, “Oh, wait, it’s not quite that simple…” I thought for this GovCon Expert post, it would be w...
QinetiQ US has received a U.S. Army contract worth approximately $95 million to produce and deliver aerial target systems to the military branch in support of its training and testing activities. The company said Monday it will compete for task orders under the Aerial Target Systems 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded by Army ...
Zach Furness returned to MITRE to assume the role of chief information security officer, the executive announced via LinkedIn post Friday. Most recently, Furness served as deputy CISO and director of cyber risk management at Children’s National Hospital. He joined the pediatric hospital in December 2020 as director of cybersecurity governance ...
Invisible Technologies has appointed Wes Green, a 28-year defense and national security market veteran, as senior vice president to lead its newly launched global public sector operations. The company said Thursday Green will oversee Invisible’s collaboration efforts with federal agencies and technical staff through the global public sector segmen...
Daniel Olmes has transitioned to the role of chief risk officer at Xcelerate Solutions, where he most recently worked as chief operating officer. Olmes will be responsible for driving strategic risk mitigation initiatives and streamlining merger and acquisition activities, Xcelerate Solutions said in a LinkedIn post published Thursday. The executive...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to launch a competition for a follow-on contract to continue providing operations portfolio sustainment and enhancement support to help keep FEMA’s information systems available and operational. According to a notice published Thursday on the Acquisition Planning For...
The General Services Administration has released the list of 182 Phase 1 awardees under the 8(a) small business set-aside track of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus contract program. GSA said Friday it plans to issue formal awards and notices to proceed for the OASIS+ 8(a) Small Business contract as early as Nov....
