With the growth and availability of open source data combined with an increasingly urgent need for speed in accessing data, organizations are shifting the way they think about classification and cybersecurity. Executive Mosaic recently spoke with Scott Price, general manager of Microsoft’s Industry Solutions Divisio...
When Leidos Vice President and Tech Fellow John Mears was trying to log in to his Internal Revenue Service account, he failed, because their knowledge-based authentication system didn’t provide the proper options, mistaking him for another John Mears in a neighboring state. Aware President and CEO Robert Eckel had a similar exp...
Curtis Puckett, a three-decade defense and federal contracting sector veteran, has been named president of Red River‘s business that provides technology services to the government. He will be responsible for managing and driving strategic growth for Red Rivers’ government program portfolio, which includes mission-critical IT services, th...
The global defense landscape has seen an obvious shift from counterterrorism to peer and near-peer competition in recent years, which has in turn spurred an increased focus on tighter collaboration between service branches, partners and allied forces around the world. Defense leaders believe the future fight will be fought jointly, with coalition pa...
Chantilly, Virginia-based Arcfield booked multiple contracts worth more than $158 million combined in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 to engineer and integrate systems for unnamed U.S. government clients. The classified contracts will include support for space and ground equipment along with mission applications, the company said Wednesday. Kevin K...
Neil Thurgood, a 37-year U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed to a senior vice president role at defense technology provider Anduril Industries. Anduril said Tuesday the retired Army lieutenant general will lead the company’s strategy for addressing capability priorities related to counter-unmanned air systems, air and missile defense, tactic...
Amy Davis, former deputy chief of the National Security Agency’s Office of Security and Counterintelligence, has been named senior vice president and chief security officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS). She will oversee companywide security operations and national security standard compliance efforts in her new position, Leidos said Monday. Davis wo...
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have issued an interim rule prohibiting the use of TikTok by federal contractors. A Federal Register notice published Friday says the policy amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ban the video-sharing application or successor apps developed by ByteDance on certain equipment ...
Red 6 has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round meant to help the augmented reality startup to continue investing in its proprietary technology for a combat pilot training system. RedBird Capital Partners led the financing round, in which Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm and Boeing‘s investment partnership with A...
SpaceX has secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide Starlink satellite communications terminals and services for Ukraine’s military, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The Pentagon will likely acquire the satcom terminals through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. “We continue to work with a range of global partne...
