Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), said government agencies should adopt data encryption capabilities to protect classified information from breaches and one of the encryption innovations they can use now is confidential computing. “Confidential computing works by having the CPU reserve a section of memory...
Recent developments in anti-satellite and space-based weaponry by foreign adversaries has prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to rapidly develop and deploy secure space intelligence sensors that will arm military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages over adversaries. During Potomac Officers Club’s Space ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2021 — Serco Group’s North American division will provide engineering and technical services under a potential $400 million multiple-award re-compete contract from the U.S. Navy to support aviation command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance electronic systems. Dav...
Henry Fleischmann, director of government, education and healthcare solutions architecture at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said agencies seeking to protect critical assets from cyberattacks should adopt an end-to-end security framework that includes a zero trust approach. Fleischmann wrote that with zero trust, organizations should assume that a breach withi...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 600 companies spots on the SeaPort Next Generation contract vehicle for engineering and program management support services. The move marks the expansion of the current pool of vendors competing for task orders across 23 functional areas as part of a rolling admissions process launched in January for the SeaPort-NxG indefin...
Intrepid Solutions and Services, a portfolio company of Bluestone Investment Partners, has acquired Darkblade Systems for an undisclosed sum to expand technology products and service offerings for the U.S. Intelligence Community in the areas of counter unmanned aircraft systems, cybersecurity and electronic warfare. Winchester, Virginia-based Darkbl...
Alan Shaffer, former deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, has joined the government security committee of semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries. He joins a panel that advises the Malta, New York-based company’s management team on government, political affairs and security matters,...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has appointed former Department of Defense leaders David Norquist, Ellen Lord and Dana Deasy to the newly established strategic advisory board to provide guidance as SAIC advances innovation and growth efforts. “These leaders bring years of experience in both industry and the federal government...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, has acquired Volant Associates for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of IT offerings for agency clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Volant’s leadership team will stay and oversee a new division within Oct...
NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal propulsion system that could be used in future deep space exploration missions. Each company will receive a potential 12-year, $5 million contract from DOE’s Id...
