Vasu Murthy, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in software development, was named senior vice president and chief product officer at Cohesity. The artificial intelligence-powered data security provider said Tuesday Murthy most recently served as VP of products at Rubrik, where he was responsible for its core product, platform...
Accenture Federal Services has appointed Michael Miller to the position of managing director, GovCon Wire has learned. He brings to his new role three decades of experience supporting the company and parent organization Accenture. What Are Miller’s New Responsibilities? As managing director, Miller will be responsible for operations growth pla...
Leidos saw its revenue increase 7 percent year-over-year to $4.2 billion during the third quarter of fiscal year 2024 and attributed the revenue growth to increased demand across all customer segments, particularly for managed health services. In an earnings release published Tuesday, the defense and IT services contractor said it recorded $362 mill...
Cloud technologies have become widely adopted across the federal government. The Department of Defense made a significant investment in cloud at the end of 2022 with its $9 billion multi-vendor JWCC contract. But now, two years later, what’s on the horizon for cloud in the public sector? According to Steve Derr, vice president of Oracle̵...
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...
In 2016 and 2020, foreign influence on the U.S. presidential election was a concern. Russian efforts were detected in 2016 in particular and Iranian activities were identified in 2020. Both of these nations, along with China, are being closely watched by the Department of Homeland Security, which asserts that bad actors are more active than...
Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has established an executive advisory board consisting of top cybersecurity leaders who will help drive company strategy to continue its growth in the federal market. The Herndon, Virginia-headquartered cybersecurity company said Monday the inaugural members bring government agency, defense, and commercial exper...
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...
Special Aerospace Services, a provider of space and defense engineering and mission-critical communications systems, has acquired Alabama-based missile and hypersonic weapons company Concordia Technologies. The strategic acquisition is part of SAS’ efforts to position itself as a leader in the defense technology market, the Godspeed Capital Ma...
Executive Mosaic has chosen Sharon Dunbar, vice president of cross-company business initiatives for General Dynamics Mission Systems, as chair of the Multi-Domain Group for the 4×24 Executive Leadership Series. The 4×24 Executive Leadership Program invites esteemed executives and professionals to a series of networking dinn...
