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SpiderOak has received investments from the venture capital arms of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Stellar Ventures and will use the capital to speed up the deployment of zero-trust, cybersecurity platforms for government and commercial clients operating in the space sector. SpiderOak said Thursday the investment will h...
Department of Defense leaders are facing a tsunami of data and wrestling with the question of how exactly to best use and harness it. As the data influx continues to swell, government and industry executives are working to identify areas for improvement within their organizations. “We’re in a world where the sensors far outnumber our...
Eight companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $800 million contract to provide support services for the U.S. Agency for International Development to help improve development outcomes in countries affected by conflict, fragility and violence. USAID announced the awardees on the Programming for Prevention and Peacebuilding indefinite-delive...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has unveiled a technology strategy to advance investments in the areas of zero trust, multicloud management, 5G, mission artificial intelligence and machine learning, software factory and automation for IT operations. GDIT said Wednesday it is leveraging those six digital accelerator are...
According to Air Force Lt. Gen. Mary O’Brien, chief information officer at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the speed at which technology is advancing and the extent of its potential impact on military operations have reached “unprecedented” levels. Technology has repeatedly impacted the character of war, said O’Brien. In the past, tanks repl...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Google’s public sector business. Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, announced the appointment of Goldfein and other board members in a blog post published Wednesday. Goldfein,...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The U.S. Navy is looking at using artificial intelligence paired with unmanned vessels to solve its most urgent fleet readiness challenges in some of the most consequential theaters to the intensifying peer competition. In recent months, the service has made notable strides forward in exploring how AI and unmanned or minimally manned vessels can be...
Syam Nair, a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief technology officer at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) in a move that takes effect May 24. Zscaler said Tuesday that Nair will serve as executive vice president for research and development in addition to CTO. The 25-year technology industry veteran...
Software as a service company Exiger has acquired supply chain risk management platform vendor Ion Channel. Exiger said Tuesday that it will add the acquired company’s technology offering to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified SaaS platform that contains information on 16.8 million unique supply chains. Before the acq...
