Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of fed...
Cybereason confidentially filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering that could give the Boston-based security startup a valuation of more than $5 billion, Reuters reported Monday. Reuters cited sources that say the cybersecurity company has finalized the underwriters for the IPO, which could kick off in the second half of 2022. Cyber...
The Potomac Officers Club on Thursday hosted its first Digital Currency and National Security Forum, which gathered the leading figures and voices in the blockchain, cryptocurrency and virtual asset movement to explore the underlying technology foundations, the national security concerns and the potential future impacts of digital currencies as th...
Thursday’s Digital Currency and National Security Forum, hosted by the Potomac Officers Club, featured a mid-day keynote address from the Honorable Marshall Billingslea, former assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Department of the Treasury, on how blockchain fits into the broader context of historic human innovation, the national...
Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Management through its private equity arm Evergreen Coast Capital are close to finalizing a potential $13 billion deal to acquire Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) and take the cloud computing company private, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. WSJ cited sources that say an agreement to buy Citrix for $104 per...
On Thursday, the country’s first National Cyber Director Chris Inglis spoke on the essential components of viable digital ecosystems, the implications of recent cybersecurity legislation and executive orders from the White House and the effort to accelerate software security in his keynote address to the Potomac Officers Club’s virtual ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a sole-source contract worth $150 million to maintain and update an integrated electronic countermeasures system on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1B bomber planes. The company’s defense systems sector will provide engineering support and perform block cycle updates to the AN/ALQ-161A Operational Flight ...
Daniel Perkins, formerly the chairman and CEO of MTS Technologies, has been named into Concurrent Technologies Corporation‘s board of directors. CTC said Thursday Perkins founded and led MTS, which provided technical and logistics support to customers at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. He has been involved in consulting e...
Technical and professional services provider RSC2 has acquired a TriMech Services division that offers systems engineering, modeling and simulation services to the Department of Defense. The transaction gives RSC2 access to the Army’s Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services and Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition and Procure...
Excella has secured a position on a Department of Homeland Security contract vehicle to support the automation and modernization of information technology operations at the DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The company said Thursday it will offer services to help ICE build software through the Agile methodology, develop full-sta...
