Frank Jimenez, former general counsel at the Department of the Navy and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), joined the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII). His appointment took effect Thursday and he is admitted to District of Columbia, New York, Florida and U.S. Supreme Court bars, HII said Tuesday. Jimenez previously hel...
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor and Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2022, recently joined in an exclusive fireside chat to discuss global financial trends, imperative national security and cybersecurity issues and federal government implica...
Anduril Industries has purchased Boston-based autonomous underwater vehicle manufacturer Dive Technologies in a strategy to add undersea coverage to the defense technology provider’s portfolio of unmanned systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquired company’s DIVE-LD platform can be tailored to match military requiremen...
Tenable Holdings (Nasdaq: TENB) has agreed to purchase Cymptom, a cybersecurity startup that specializes in mapping attack paths, in a deal that would add analytics to Tenable’s risk-based vulnerability management platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and Tenable said Tuesday it plans to integrate Cymptom’s agentless attack path...
Army Brig. Gen. Charles “Rob” Parker, J6 deputy director at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will address the Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday for a virtual forum about the role of data and technology in the Pentagon’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. Parker was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in January 2021...
Mike Eddings, president and CEO of the technology services business at Optum Serve, has been assigned to also lead the federal health services provider’s consulting group. In his expanded role, Eddings will oversee the business formerly known as The Lewin Group that offers data analytics, program evaluation and integrity and policy analysis su...
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...
