Federal health services provider OptumServe has named Robert Harsla, a former director at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as vice president of business development, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. At LexisNexis, Harsala worked in support of health care-focused programs under the departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare ...
GovCon Wire Events hosted Thursday its AI: Innovation in Homeland Security Forum, which brought together government and industry leaders to examine how national security agencies can leverage AI technology to combat foreign and domestic adversaries and threats. Following a keynote address from DHS official John Cohen, GovCon Wire Events proceeded ...
The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
President Joe Biden has nominated John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, to serve as full-time CIO at DOD. Sherman has nearly 25 years of innovation and national security experience across DOD and the intelligence community leading modernization efforts in the areas of collaboration, cybersecurity and cloud comp...
The White House has released a national security memorandum to improve the cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure. The memo announces the establishment of the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to facilitate the deployment of technologies meant to provide threat detection and visibility and cyber response capabilities in o...
Washington, D.C.-based technology company Babel Street has appointed former senior government officials Robert Ashley, David Glaser, Ellen McCarthy and Harry Wetherbee to its newly formed board of advisers. They will advise Babel Street’s leadership team on approaches to help customers apply its artificial intelligence-based analytics platform...
Jen Easterly, head of firm resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center at Morgan Stanley, received Senate confirmation to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, three months after the White House announced her nomination for the role, Politico reported Monday. In a unanimous vote, senators approved Easterly to lea...
WCC Global will provide the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives with geographic information systems, project management, communications support and other services under a five-year, $82 million contract. The management consulting firm said Tuesday it teamed up with Nickol Global Solutions and XL Associa...
Versar, a program management business supporting federal government and commercial clients and a portfolio company of private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management, has purchased BayFirst Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of portfolio expansion initiative across the information technology and intelligence service areas. “We look ...
Zhenia Klevitsky, former vice president of business development at ASRC Federal’s civilian, health and national security business group, has joined information technology company Sev1Tech as chief growth officer. She will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, expanding customer portfolio and driving organic growth initiatives ...
