As emerging technologies continue to transform the nature of conflict between the U.S. and its adversaries, the intelligence community has recognized the need to accelerate the adoption of these tools in order to stay at the forefront of the competition. According to intelligence experts who came together for a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s&nb...
Former National Security Agency executive Lori Weatherwax has joined LexisNexis Special Services Inc., a government-focused subsidiary of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, to serve as director of business development enterprise solutions. Weatherwax brings to the role three decades of federal service experience in cybersecurity, data science and analytics,...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner for advancing strategic partnerships with agencies, industry and academia and prioritizing the development of a joint cyberspace capability to...
With the creation of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office by the Department of Defense in 2022, the Pentagon has signaled its intent to embrace AI technologies. Although it has yet to take such sweeping action, the U.S. intelligence community is following suit. In the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act — the ruling that directs...
Clayton Jones, a cybersecurity professional with more than two decades of combined industry and government experience, has been named chief technology officer at Reston, Virginia-based data analytics and security company Aperio Global. He will aim to drive Aperio’s portfolio growth and work closely with its executive team to accelerate technol...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) saw its fiscal year 2023 second quarter revenue rise 11 percent to $1.65 billion and attributed the increase to a 6 percent organic growth and recently completed acquisitions. The Reston, Virginia-based government technology services contractor said Wednesday total backlog at the end of December was $26.5 billion, of ...
With the rise of new technologies and the expansion of the digital world, cyber has become a critical component of warfighting, national security and innovation for the United States. In February 2022, cyber took the global spotlight as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, but U.S. cyber forces were ahead of the threat and played...
Peter Hall, a 39-year federal service veteran, announced Thursday in a LinkedIn post that he has moved on to pursue a career in the private sector as senior director of growth at Peraton. Prior to this appointment, Hall was the National Security Agency’s senior representative to the Department of Defense. He previously held a short-stint as...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) said its move to acquire cybersecurity firm EverWatch would allow it to secure “billions of dollars” worth of contracts and compete with rival contractors such as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Defense News reported Monday. In March, Booz Allen agreed to buy EverWatch as part of...
Booz Allen Hamilton has received pushback from the U.S. Department of Justice on its March agreement to purchase data science, intelligence and cybersecurity contracting company EverWatch Corp. In the form of a civil antitrust lawsuit made public on Wednesday, the DOJ is asserting that the acquisition violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Sectio...
