The Atlantic Council has released a report offering recommendations for the U.S. government and its allies to maintain national security and economic competitiveness in the global economy with the use of technology. The council said Wednesday its Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data classified those recommendation...
A Congressional Budget Office report on its estimated $634 billion price tag for modernizing, operating and manning the national nuclear enterprise over the next decade includes “long-planned” submarine construction, plutonium pit production and military weapons programs, according to McAleese & Associates. Jim McAleese, founder of M...
Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, have closed the acquisition of Cubic for approximately $3 billion. Cubic said Tuesday it will remain headquartered in San Diego and stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the go-private transaction. Cubic stockholders approved an amended buyout off...
ArchTIS and its U.S. subsidiary, Nucleus Cyber, have signed on four channel partners to offer information security technology to government contractors that want to pursue the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Canberra, Australia-based archTIS said Wednesday its newly formed U.S. federal and defense sa...
Valerie Isbell, a former Customs and Border Protection official at the Department of Homeland Security, has been named a strategic board adviser at Sev1Tech. She brings to Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology service management company almost four decades of experience in serving at DHS and the departments of Justice and Defense, Sev1Te...
Tod Weber, former chairman and CEO of Software AG’s government solutions division, has been appointed senior vice president and general manager of the federal systems group at enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3 AI (NYSE: AI). Weber brings more than 35 years of technology industry experience to his new position and will be ...
Information technology (IT) is becoming increasingly important through the Department of Defense (DOD) and Intelligence Community (IC). The ability to swiftly and securely move data from different locations in a manageable manner is more critical than ever for our nation’s national security. During GovConWire’s Data Innovation Fo...
Mike McGovern, former vice president at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined Pennsylvania-based government services provider Day and Zimmermann to serve as VP of business development, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. McGovern will drive efforts to help Day and Zimmermann grow across defense, intelligence and civili...
Phil Robinson, a three-decade veteran of the aerospace and defense sector, has been named vice president and chief security officer at McLean, Virginia-based satellite relay system developer SpaceLink. He will oversee the company’s strategic and tactical security functions and brings to his new position years of technology, operations and data...
Faryar Shirzad, most recently global co-head of the office of government affairs at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), has joined Coinbase Global (Nasdaq: COIN) as chief policy officer. He will engage with regulators, lawmakers and other policymakers to address issues surrounding the cryptoeconomy and realize its full potential, Coinbase said Monday. S...
