By Alan Chvotkin, Partner at Centre Law & Consulting In March 2016, pursuant to an initial Obama Executive Order, the National Archives published its long-awaited final regulations covering how agencies must deal with controlled unclassified information, or CUI. CUI is information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to,...
The European Commission has approved Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) proposed $61 billion acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) following the completion of an in-depth review. Broadcom said Tuesday the two companies believe combining their operations would not hamper cloud market competition and could provide enterprise cust...
Kathryn Simpson, vice president and associate general counsel of the mission systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to corporate VP and general counsel in a move that takes effect Oct. 30. She will take over the responsibility of overseeing Northrop’s legal affairs from the retiring Sheila Cheston and will report dir...
Mission1st Group has acquired Ardent Management Consulting for an undisclosed sum to expand information technology service offerings for the Department of Defense and federal civilian agency customers. Ardent, an Amazon Web Services consulting partner, specializes in data analytics and location intelligence support to public sector clients, Mission1...
In recent years, space has become a warfighting domain as global tensions rise, new threats emerge and the peer competition heats up. Now, more than ever, the ability to collect, process, and understand intelligence from space is critical to gaining and maintaining technological dominance on the global stage. Under its eighth director, Vice AdmiralÂ...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will continue to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency migrate enterprise information technology workloads to a multicloud environment under a five-year, $84 million contract. HII said Tuesday subcontractors on the recompeted work are AgileBeat, Ampsight, Compass and GIT-G. The teammem...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has partnered with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to develop next-generation aerospace industry capabilities that are enabled by advanced semiconductor technology. The collaboration is focused on the use of Intel 18A Silicon Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor fabrication process to design and create secure and autonomous Boeing products...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International A new bipartisan legislation, the Cybersecurity Awareness Act, would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to launch a public-private campaign that would promote access to cybersecurity resources and expand outreach to small businesses and underserved communities on...
Private equity firm Vector Capital has completed its purchase of Riverbed Technology for an undisclosed sum and named tech industry veteran Dave Donatelli as CEO of the acquired information technology company. Dan Smoot, most recently CEO of Riverbed, will continue to support the company during the transition period, Riverbed said Tuesday. Donatelli...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
