Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has in the last week announced sweeping changes to the U.S. Army in an effort to streamline and cut unnecessary programs and outdated systems. Hegseth calls the set of changes a “comprehensive transformation” and they come as the service branch looks to firm up its re...
By Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Lead, IBM Risk management in organizations is more than a routine checkbox exercise. Instead, it is the foundation of business resilience. What is the impact of security risks? Failing to implement appropriate and proportionate security measures can result in data breaches, infrastructure lapses ...
Software company Elastic has appointed industry leaders Chris Townsend and Darryl Peek as global vice president of public sector and VP of partner sales for the U.S. public sector, respectively. Townsend and Peek announced their new leadership positions in separate LinkedIn posts. In addition to his role as global VP, Townsend will serve as presiden...
Leidos has been awarded a $205 million contract to provide services in support of the modernization and operation of IT systems for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or DTRA, enterprise. Bolstering Defense Against Emerging Threats The Reston, Virginia-based company said Monday the five-year DTRA Integrated Information Technology Support...
Serco Group’s U.S. arm has promoted Kim Joiner, most recently senior adviser to the chief technology officer, to the position of vice president of government relations. “Kim’s wealth of experience will be an incredible benefit to Serco. Her efforts to enhance our presence on Capitol Hill and within various Departments and Age...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded ManTech a potential $198.9 million contract to provide support for the NOAA Cyber Security Center, or NCSC, to improve its capability in providing security operations center as a service, or SOCaaS, for its partners. NOAA announced the award through a notice published Wednesday on SAM.g...
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a potential $743.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for enterprise level application modernization and migration. Contract Specifications The Department of Defense said Wednesday time-and-materials and firm-fixed-price task order covers services supporting the modernization and migration of enterprise app...
Managed IT services provider OSIbeyond has received Level 2 certification under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMS, program. In a statement published Wednesday, Payam Pourkhomami, president and CEO of OSIbeyond, expressed excitement with the achievement of the CMMC Level 2 certification, which he said demonstrates the company...
Teledyne Technologies appointed George Bobb III as president and CEO, effective immediately. Bobb succeeds Edwin Roks, who announced his retirement after two decades at the company, Teledyne said in a press release Monday. Roks will remain as special adviser to Robert Mehrabian, executive chair of Teledyne, until Aug. 31. Who is Teledyne...
Iridium Communications recorded fiscal 2025 first-quarter revenue of $214.9 million, up 5 percent from the same period the previous year, and posted Q1 net income of $30.4 million, or $0.27 per diluted share. In an earnings release published Tuesday, the McLean, Virginia-based satellite communications company said its operational earnings before int...
