The U.S. Air Force plans to implement a potential $950 million follow-on contract vehicle for cyber technology development support services to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate. The Agile Cyber Technology 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is open to small businesses and encomp...
Robert Potter, vice president of Americas sales at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), has said that government agencies should develop cyber resilience plans in an effort to mitigate problems and address security gaps associated with the integration of new technology platforms into the infrastructure. Potter wrote that agencies should start addressing such ga...
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and his four military aides were among the first individuals to perform first aid and rescue operation when a passenger vehicle collided with a mass transit bus on the night of Oct. 12 in southeast Washington, D.C., ABC News reported Thursday. Luis Martinez writes Milley and his staff encountered the...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index remained flat Friday with an equal number of advancing and declining issues amid U.S. stock market gains on bank earnings reports from Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) is the GCI’s top net gainer and Vectrus (NYSE: V...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held flat Friday despite gains in the larger U.S. stock market on positive bank earnings reports and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s comment that the country may be able to handle a “high pressure” economy with a tight labor market. Friday’s gain wa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and the National Cyber Security Alliance have commissioned a study that has shown that the cyber threats during the U.S. presidential election have helped to encourage young adults to venture into the cybersecurity industry, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Zogby Analytics conduct...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Atlantic has awarded Engility (NYSE: EGL) an 18-month, $16 million task order to continue to deliver software and networking services for the U.S. Navy‘s tactical afloat network, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Engility said Thursday it will work to update th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has conducted risk reduction functional tests on the software of the ground control segment it is building for the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System III satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the recent tests focused on the Oper...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has unveiled a fifth global information technology service center in Puerto Rico in efforts to meet demand for IT support to the company’s approximately 98, 000 employees around the world, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. News is my Business report...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 14, 2016 ” Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has partnered with the Commerce Department to host an event in Seattle that works to challenge software developers to build voice recognition systems that utilize open data, Executive Gov reported Thursday. Justin Antonipillai, counselor to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, wr...
