Siemens’ smart grid division has launched a new distribution management system that is intended to help customers in North America meet business and regulatory requirements. The Spectrum Power ADMS (advanced distribution management system) is built to integrate supervisory control and data acquisition, outage management and fault and network analysis operations into a software platform, Siemens […] More

Charles Sowell serves as senior vice president in Salient Federal Solutions‘ system and software engineering solutions business unit, where he oversees work in the areas of security clearances, insider threat prevention and detection and big data analysis. He most recently served as deputy assistant director for special security for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […] More

The MITRE Corp. and Harvard University are collaborating to develop a nanocomputer system. A team of scientists and engineers worked to design and assemble an ultra-small control processor called nanoFSM (nanoelectronic finite-state machine), which uses very little power to function, MITRE said Monday. The nanoFSM is comprised of hundreds of nanowire transistors within circuits on […] More

McAfee and ADT have surveyed the connections between physical and online security risks among device users. The Futures Company commissioned the poll of 1,228 users of mobile and technological devices in the U.S. between December 4 and 15, 2013, McAfee said Monday. “In today’s always connected digital world, our entire lives are managed and are […] More

At ODNI, I was asked to become the program executive for security clearance reform in 2009, and then I became the deputy assistant director for special security and had pretty frequent interactions with Director Clapper, the director of National Intelligence. Those posts gave me real learning experience for the impact of security across the government. […] More

Chris Braccio serves as vice president of human resources at AMERICAN SYSTEMS where she is responsible for the company’s human capital function which includes talent management, compensation and benefits as well as community affairs and charitable programs. The more than 25-year HR veteran has held leadership roles at World Kitchen, StarBand Communications and Sunrise Assisted Living and is a […] More

An independent panel of experts has completed the critical design review on the spacecraft for the James Webb Space Telescope, which Northrop Grumman is building for NASA. The review finished five months ahead of schedule and took place after 76 preceding reviews of the telescope’s spacecraft, Northrop announced Friday. Northrop is building the spacecraft to point the […] More

Two Cubic cryptographic modules have received the FIPS 140-2 validation status from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment after testing and analysis work by Aegisolve. The Managed Asset Tag Cryptographic Module and SINK Cryptographic Module basis for its mist mesh networking product were validated as compliant to federal data security requirements, Cubic said […] More

Exelis Inc. has partnered with a nonprofit organization and a talent consultancy firm to launch a leadership and training program for veterans entering the civilian sector. Korn Ferry International and Points of Light will work with Exelis’ corporate volunteer service program to offer the four-month program to 35 veterans, Exelis announced Friday at the program’s […] More

Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have partnered with two non-profit organizations to deliver 7,300 pounds of medical and educational supplies to Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The companies delivered the supplies through Boeing’s 777-300 Extended Range airplane that is currently leased to the airlines, Boeing announced Monday. The program with Seattle Alliance Outreach […] More

As we recently covered, SAIC is continuing to hone in on its management structure as the company moves forward after the legacy SAIC separated into two companies – the ‘new’ SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), and Leidos. As a new brand, Leidos leaders have needed to introduce and position the firm to the GovCon marketplace, […] More

The National Nuclear Security Administration has received the final wind turbines for a wind farm in Amarillo, Texas that is being built by Siemens Government Technologies, the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal business organization. Siemens has set the operational date for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project as July 31, 2014 — nearly a year after NNSA and […] More