Alka Patel, former chief of responsible artificial intelligence at the Department of Defense’s Joint AI Center, has joined Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) to serve as vice president of government and external affairs. The new VP wrote in a LinkedIn post that she will support Comcast as the company focuses on community investment and digital equity to...
Viasat has been selected to help the Department of Defense assess weapon system architectures as part of a cybersecurity pilot program that will employ an analytics-based automation process. Under a DOD contract, Viasat will work to identify vulnerabilities in key weapon components through cyber and software-defined radio threat assessments, the com...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration intend to propose a rule as a potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to mitigate the risk of climate change in federal agency procurements. The agencies are considering introducing the rule in accordance with an executive order released in May that seeks to co...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DevSecOps initiative. MFGS’ Fortify leverages zero trust, automated testing and code scanning capabilities t...
The Department of Defense has completed the market research for a program that will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud initiative and expects to decide by the end of October which vendors will be allowed to take part in the new program, Federal News Network reported Thursday. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program will...
The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems will help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain operational technology used to manage the storage and distribution of fuel products for Department of Defense missions across the globe. Contract work includes preventive and corrective maintenance work on sensors, network communications, controls, alarms and gauges a...
Jason Weiss, a senior information technology modernization professional, has been appointed chief software officer at the Department of Defense, FedScoop reported Friday. He will lead efforts to modernize legacy applications and implement modern software development practices across DOD. Weiss joined the Pentagon in January as director of software m...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2021 — Chris Valentino, chief strategy officer at Peraton, has underscored the importance of the Department of Defense’s collaboration with the industry to support its Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 14. “[The industry can contribute by] helping to identify relev...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 27, 2021 — A Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) executive vice president has highlighted the need for the Department of Defense to have a unified, open network capable of providing the military with capabilities to enable data access, sharing and analysis and facilitate the battlefield decision-making process, ExecutiveBiz re...
