Godspeed Capital Management, a government market-focused private equity firm, has invested in cybersecurity and intelligence services provider Varen Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Marty Leshin will continue to lead Varen as president and CEO as the company works with its investor in market footprint expansion and acquisition pursuit initiative...
Kelly Baldwin, a former vice president at GRSi, has been promoted to serve as senior VP for the enterprise technology company’s defense programs. The appointment makes Baldwin GRSi’s first SVP and continues his company tenure that began in 2015, the company said Thursday. He will also retain his role as general manager of GRSi’s Charle...
Six senators have urged Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to issue informal guidance providing the definition of “broker” of cryptocurrency and other digital assets in a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Section 80603 of the law seeks to “provide more certainty for Americans looking to invest in these digital assets, ensur...
H.R. McMaster, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former national security adviser, has joined the advisory board of Redwood City, California-based artificial intelligence software company C3 AI. “Enterprise AI is important to national security,” McMaster said in a statement released Wednesday. “I am grateful for the opportunity to sup...
SkyePoint Decisions has received $52 million task order to provide cybersecurity risk management and compliance services for the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid. The company said Wednesday it will identify, analyze and review cyber risks to key FSA enterprise information systems and help the office implement a security ...
On Wednesday, the Potomac Officers Club hosted its Air Force IT Modernization and Digital Transformation Forum, which gathered notable leaders from the U.S. Air Force and industry who spoke on leveraging public-private partnerships to accelerate infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity and other digital transformation initiatives during an era ...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has promoted its federal health executive Sarah Carter to vice president of growth for the company’s federal civilian sector, G2xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. Carter is a more-than-two-decade industry veteran with experience in the design, implementation and administration of technologies and services i...
NuScale Power has agreed to merge with blank check company Spring Valley Acquisition (NASDAQ: SV) in a transaction that would take the Fluor-backed (NYSE: FLR) company public and help commercialize its small modular reactor technology. Fluor said Tuesday it has invested over $600 million in NuScale since 2011 and expects to own about 60 percent...
Vikram Manikonda, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the government contracting industry, has been appointed chief technology officer of BlueHalo, effective Jan. 1. BlueHalo said Wednesday Manikonda spent more than two decades at the company’s technology innovation subsidiary Intelligent Automation Inc., where he most rec...
Michael Hylton, senior director of government sales at OPSWAT, said agencies seeking to protect information technology systems and government data from cyberthreats should extend their zero trust strategy to every file and “assume that it’s malicious until proven otherwise.” He wrote about how OPSWAT applies its content disarm and reconstructi...
