SoftBank Group-backed data security software firm Cohesity has agreed to buy the data protection business of Veritas in a cash-and-stock transaction to form a combined entity valued at approximately $7 billion, Reuters reported Thursday. Cohesity is a San Jose, California-based company that offers artificial intelligence-based software to help organ...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Read part one here Securing space systems is imperative. Satellite security must be comprehensive, covering every facet of both terrestrial and orbiting satellites, including end-user routers and ground communications systems. There is a non-kinetic threat to space assets. Adversaries can...
The U.S. Army has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Global Military Products, a division of Global Ordnance, to compete for orders under a $133.9 million special ammunition and weapons system production contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and will determine work lo...
Tim Solms, a technology executive with over three decades of combined military and industry experience, has been named CEO of space tracking and data analytics company Slingshot Aerospace. The U.S. Army veteran will join the company’s board of directors and oversee innovation, growth and expansion initiatives across the domestic and internatio...
The digital revolution has made military operations more reliant on networks than ever before, and the Department of Defense is laser-focused on 5G, Future G and new technologies that can maximize the benefits modern networks have to offer. According to Dr. Martin Weiss, director for Future G applied research and technical lead for resilient and o...
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Carey Smith, chair, president and CEO of Parsons, with the 2024 Wash100 Award for her continued efforts to drive the company’s growth and expansion efforts by leading new business integration and pursuing M&A opportunities. Vote for Smith as one of your 10 favorite government industry leaders at Was...
A top Department of Defense procurement official for artificial intelligence has shared the Pentagon AI office’s five major goals for the rest of fiscal year 2024. Quentin McCoy, director of procurement at the DOD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, named goals that are both expansive and focused on specific acquisition processe...
Xcelerate Solutions, a defense and national security company, has merged with Fairfax, Virginia-based cybersecurity firm VMD as part of efforts to offer an expanded portfolio of secure platforms and services to federal government customers. Founded in 2002, VMD provides information technology services in cybersecurity, agile engineering and critical...
Doug Keating, formerly a senior director at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined national security technology company Vibrint as vice president of business development. He will report to Amy Steinberg, chief growth officer at Vibrint, and oversee the development and execution of the company’s expansion strategy for the national security sector...
Todd Brown, former director of business development at AvL Technologies, has been appointed director of strategic product and programs development at Antenna Research Associates. He will identify new market opportunities to advance the commercialization of ARA’s new and existing products and programs, the company said Tuesday. “His exper...
