Global investment firm Francisco Partners has announced the appointment of Manny Rivelo, a more than 30-year executive in security and information technology sectors, as the new CEO of Forcepoint in a string of executive appointments after it completed the acquisition of the cybersecurity platforms developer from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RT...
President-elect Joe Biden plans to appoint Anne Neuberger, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as deputy national security adviser for cybersecurity within the National Security Council, Politico reported Wednesday. In this newly created position on NSC, Neuberger will oversee the coordination of...
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) has enlisted the help of a consulting firm Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a two-time Wash100 awardee, established with Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), to support the software vendor’s intrusion review process, Reuters rep...
France-based information technology services provider Atos SE has made an unsolicited bid to acquire Tysons, Virginia-based IT company DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC). DXC was formed out of the merger between Computer Sciences Corp. and the enterprise services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) in 2017 and helped form Perspecta (NYSE: PRS...
General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business has received a U.S. Army contract modification to advance hypersonic projectile technology designed to integrate with a railgun system and intercept targets in electromagnetic environments....
Donald Heckman, a director in the advanced solutions unit of Guidehouse, has been named leader for defense cyber solutions at the McLean, Virginia-based management consulting firm....
Kirk Herdman, formerly executive vice president of business and corporate development at KeyW, has joined VTG as president of the Chantilly, Virginia-based company's national security solutions unit. John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO, describes Herdman as “a thoughtful leader who brings a wealth of strategic insight, technical expertise, an...
Doug Jankovich, formerly executive director of U.S. Air Force strategic growth at ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), has joined Alion Science and Technology as vice president for business development within the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance group. Jankovich brings to Alion his more than two decades of business development and capt...
Axiologic Solutions, a federal information technology services contractor, has purchased intelligence services firm Knowledge Link for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its capabilities in support of missions of national security customers....
John Harris II, a 37-year Raytheon veteran and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the board of directors of Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO). He previously served as the Raytheon company's vice president of business development and as CEO of its international business....
