In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Rob Lalumondier, vice president of federal business at Sophos, to discuss his strategic goals for 2022 and the five core values that reflect the company’s government-industry partnerships. He also talked about artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud and other technology trends and h...
The U.S. Marine Corps released a new update of its Force Design 2030 earlier this month that shifts the service’s main focus more toward sensing and reconnaissance, but not necessarily away from lethality. “The security environment is characterized by proliferation of sophisticated sensors and precision weapons coupled with growing st...
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has agreed to acquire business intelligence and strategic advisory firm Next5 for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to pursue growth, expand its line of cybersecurity platforms and support its customers in navigating cyberthreats and meeting their missions. Bryan Ware, founder and CEO of Next5, will serve as CEO of L...
Space-based missile tracking has become a top priority for U.S. space agencies as global adversaries’ use of hypersonic and long-range missiles continues to skyrocket, posing a significant threat to national security. Countries like China, North Korea and others have been building and testing an increasing amount of intercontinental ballistic miss...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should collaborate with industry to develop and field “hardened, optimal code” and advance the adoption of the SecDevOps approach to protect software from potential cyberattacks. Burnette wrote that SecDevOps provide...
The United States’ near-peer adversaries have the same technologies that we do, but on a much larger scale. The only way to be survivable in the near-peer fight of the future is to “be able to be networked, agile and lethal,” according to Greg Wenzel, executive vice president and a leader in Booz Allen Hamilton’s global defense...
The U.S. Air Force has released a draft request for proposals for a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for enterprise cybersecurity support services. The Enterprise Cyber Capabilities multi-award, IDIQ contract seeks to streamline the acquisition process for cyber services, enable warfighters to maintain information ...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is prioritizing cloud migration as it works to push capabilities out to the tactical edge and better support U.S. warfighters with access to critical data. Notably along this effort, the Department of Defense recently released its software modernization strategy, which replaces its 2018 cloud strategy and more clearl...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is shifting its workflow approach and prioritizing speed to close its pacing gap with other global powers in today’s rapidly changing geopolitical environment, according to NGA Chief Information Officer Mark Andress. “We’re moving away from a Continental U.S.-first, human-initiated, point-to-poin...
A few years from now, the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability will be in place and operational as the foundation for the department’s JADC2 initiative, according to John Sherman, chief information officer of DOD and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner. The department’s cloud adoption efforts have been difficult and remain diffi...
