Tag Archives: DevOps

McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the remarks of Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, at a Defense Innovation Board meeting. Lord discussed the need to bifurcate software development from hardware development and cited the Department of Defense’s effort to rewrite the 5000.02 acquisition …

McAleese & Associates has released a report on a speech by Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, at the Defense Program Conference held Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Roper said the service is accelerating work on hypersonics and noted about Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2019 — Rob Sherry, senior director of federal healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said the company is positioned to help its government customers in their information technology modernization efforts by facilitating new capabilities and new ways to approach core infrastructure areas. He told ExecutiveBiz …

Ashburn, Va.-based technology services contractor Applied Insight has acquired Stratus Solutions and Applied Technology Group for an undisclosed sum in a push to grow its artificial intelligence, cloud and analytics offerings for defense, intelligence and federal civilian clients. AI said Wednesday it acquired ATG early last year and completed its …

Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the two-day Reagan National Defense Forum that kicked off Friday in California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) CEO Marillyn Hewson; Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy; Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business; and Harris (NYSE: …

Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), said agencies can avoid complexity by leveraging the same security platform that they already have deployed to protect their perimeter, their mobile devices, and their data centers in the cloud-based services they are moving to. He refers to these environments as …

Patrick Sullivan, senior director of global security strategy at Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said agencies that aim to eliminate cyber vulnerabilities should use DevOps and agile methods. “Agencies need to be extremely agile to stay ahead of vulnerabilities, and as they move to models that are heavily based on …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 17, 2018 — Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said a multicloud strategy that includes an assessment of applications will help federal agencies build on the cloud as a business operating model, ExecutiveBiz reported July 31. FedScoop reported July 30 that …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 9, 2018 — Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, has said a budget and acquisition framework focused on the use of commercial software development methods is needed to accelerate the delivery of defense capabilities, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 2, 2018 — Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, has said the company continues to work with the Department of Homeland Security to bolster the government’s cybersecurity posture after reaching “full operational mode” on the $1 billion Development, Operations and Maintenance or DOMino …