TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 11, 2017 ” Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Qualcomm‘s venture businesses have invested in the Israel-based cybersecurity startup creator Team8, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. A article by Bloomberg™s Gwen Ackerman reported that Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president at Micro...
Phil Quade, former special assistant for cyber of the National Security Agency director, has joined Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) as chief information security officer and strategic consultant to C-level enterprise clients. Fortinet said Tuesday Quade will oversee the company’s information security, compliance with global regulations and standa...
Miklos Kiss, a former program director at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International as director of international programs at the Arlington, Virginia-based acquisition management services contractor. ACT I said Tuesday Kiss oversees the compan...
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based knowledge discovery firm Diffeo has purchased Boston-based startup Meta Search for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand search and discovery technology offerings. Diffeo said Tuesday it also renamed Meta Search™s platform to Diffeo Cloud Search as part of the acquisition. “Diffeo’s cust...
Fincantieri‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential $86.3 million contract to support maintenance of main propulsion diesel engine and diesel generator on the U.S. Navy‘s Mine Countermeasure-1 class ships. The multiple award, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a $15.7 m...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded narrowly higher Tuesday with help from middle-tier and government services companies to offset losses by large primes as U.S. stocks recorded another mixed session that saw industrials lag and healthcare stocks climb. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 2-to-1 ratio as five of its 11...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 ” Iridium Communications‘ (Nasdaq: IRDM) initial NEXT satellites are anticipated to launch onboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 14 after a change in schedule due to high winds and rain around the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The rocket&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 ” The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board has awarded Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) a provisional authority to operate three of the company’s GovCloud offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday its Amazon Relational Databa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 ” Rob Roy, chief technology officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) U.S. federal cybersecurity team, has highlighted five cybersecurity areas that he believes the federal government should focus on in 2017, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The cyber workforce, industry partnerships, acqu...
Russ Mann, former Outerwall chief marketing officer and senior vice president of e-commerce, has been appointed president and CEO of business-to-government commerce intelligence firm Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI). Onvia said Monday Mann will also serve as a member of the board of directors and bring years of board- and executive-level corporate tra...
