Andrew Borene, a certified information systems security professional and former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive, has been appointed senior director of the federal national security group at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). He will lead a team that offers integrated technology platforms and services meant to help government clients defend against cyber thre...
Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) has received a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence-based computing machine that can offer analytics and machine learning for national security, energy, healthcare and manufacturing applications. DOE said Tuesday it expects the “Frontier” supercomputer to roll ou...
Rocky Thurston, a more than 20-year government information technology industry veteran, has joined Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) as a senior vice president, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday. He brings to the role years of experience supporting the departments of Homeland Security and Transportation and other federal civilian agencies in their IT modernizatio...
Six companies have won potential 10-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts to provide command-and-control platforms and related technology for the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 14 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, each containing a tw...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced on Tuesday that the company is acquiring all Lumen™s assets, an integrated data platform owned by the Numerica Corporation. “Over the last seven years, we have successfully developed and commercialized the Lumen product line,” said Jeff Poore, Numerica Corporation president. “We are excited ...
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International (ACT 1) announced on Tuesday that the Virginia Chamber of Commerce recognized ACT I as one of the fifty fastest growing companies in Virginia in 2019 with the 24th position on the œFantastic 50 list. œIt is an honor for ACT I to be recognized by the Virginia Chamber of...
BayFirst Solutions announced on Tuesday that the International Auditors Inc. (IAI) has granted the company certification to AS9100D (Aerospace), ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System (QMS), ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 (IT Service Delivery) and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (Information Security). IAI specializes in auditing government contractors and certifies com...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 3, 2019 ” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), has called for a shared certification process that agency chief information officers can use to approve platforms under the Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 policy, ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. Kovac wrote in a commenta...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 3, 2019 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) secured a new $27M contract that serves to extend the company’s work with the U.S. Army to test biological and chemical substances and train relevant personnel at a military installation in Utah, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the bridge cont...
Dawne Hickton, a board member at Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has been named chief operating officer and president of the company™s aerospace, technology and nuclear business in a move that will take effect June 3. She will succeed Terry Hagen, who will transition to the role of executive strategic adviser to Jacobs Chair and CEO...
