ID Experts has received a potential five-year, $400M blanket purchase agreement from the Office of Personnel Management to provide identity theft protection services to people affected by massive federal data breaches in 2015. The company said Tuesday it will continue to provide ID and credit monitoring, insurance and restoration services using the ...
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a new program that will direct federal resources toward the development of artificial intelligence in order to build up economic and national security and improve the quality of life of citizens. The American AI Initiative has five key principles and one of those is...
Paul Scharre, a senior fellow and the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, is involved in a range of research areas for CNAS, including technology, national security and artificial intelligence. He™s also the author of Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War....
William Welch, formerly president and chief operating officer of Duo Security, has been named co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity. He will serve in the role alongside retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander and help drive IronNet’s commercial efforts to expand operations worldwide, the company said Monday. Welch previously held senior lea...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential five-year, $88.4M contract to update the sensors of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fighter jets and EA-18G electronic attack planes. The company will incorporate tactical features into the aircraft sensor system and investigate hardware and software anomalies under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-...
Kieran McGrath, a more than 30-year technology industry veteran, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of Avaya (NYSE: AVYA) in a move that will take effect on Feb. 15. He will directly report to Avaya President and CEO Jim Chirico and oversee the tech firm™s financial planning, controller organization, tax, treasury...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 11, 2019 ” Cubic (NYSE: CUB) and iGov will work to integrate commercial off-the-shelf hardware built by the former’s DTECH Labs subsidiary into a small-form-factor data communications platform for the U.S. Marine Corps under a previously awarded $174M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 1. The Cubic Mission So...
Greg Sanchez, former chief technology officer of the health and federal civilian division at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been appointed vice president of strategy and products at Conduent‘s (NYSE: CNDT) government unit, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday. He joined the Florham Park, N.J.-based b...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 8, 2019 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has said threat actors could have the capability to utilize new attack vectors, information warfare, internet-of-things botnets and adware networks against companies and consumers in 2019, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said in its “2019 Cyber Threat Outloo...
Scott Briggs, who worked at ViON as director of business development from 2011 to 2017, has returned to the company as director of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community sales. The three-decade U.S. Navy veteran will work with DoD and IC customers to determine their technology requirements for the military and information te...
