Finmeccanica’s Selex ES business unit has opened a cyber defense center in central Italy in a move to expand its cybersecurity offerings for government and commercial clients, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes Selex ES managers are expecting the cyber monitoring center to help increase Finmeccanica’s annual cyber revenue by 12-13 percent. Selex ES […] More

Lockheed Martin has designed a ground-based system that aims to collect images of objects near geosynchronous orbit by using three 1-meter telescopes, Defense News reported Tuesday. Aaron Mehta writes that the Space Object Tracking platform is designed with a Lockheed-made software, which is meant to operate through remote control and can capture space objects as […] More

Executives from Boeing, Intelsat and SpaceX and SSL Federal gathered Tuesday at the National Space Symposium to discuss government innovation and industry consolidation trends in light of the current fiscal environment, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General, told the forum audience that spending cuts have actually resulted […] More

Kim Stevenson, chief information officer at Intel, says the company uses analytics software to organize sales and inventory data from sellers of Intel-powered devices, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “If we know what’s going out their doors … we can do better supply and demand matching,” Stevenson told the newspaper Thursday in an interview. […] More

A SpaceX-built cargo ship has landed in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after delivering nearly 5,000 pounds of experiments and supplies to the International Space Station, Military Times reported Sunday. James Dean writes that SpaceX’s Dragon unmanned capsule left the ISS at 9:26 a.m. Eastern time and then came down approximately 300 miles off the […] More

Michael Horowitz, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has recommended the government re-examine its export policy on unmanned aircraft systems and warnedthat limitations could lose the country’s lead in the technology to partner nations, Defense News reported Thursday. “Building partner capacity to substitute or supplement for American capabilities is an important national security priority, and there […] More

Hewlett-Packard plans to invest more than $1 billion in cloud computing technologies over the next two years, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Spencer Ante writes HP will hire developers and consultants to develop cloud systems and increase the company’s data centers to 20 over the next 18 months through the investment. Meg Whitman, CEO of […] More

Raytheon UK has won a potential $247 million order for its precision-guided bomb from the government of Saudi Arabia, Defense News reported Tuesday. Andrew Chuter writes that Congress has approved export of the Paveway IV to the Middle Eastern country as the first foreign customer of the precision-guided bomb. John Michel, weapons business director at […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

EMC Corp. has updated a storage management offering that is intended to help customers gain insights into data stored in their systems, InfoStor reported Friday. Pedro Hernandez writes the new version of the ViPR platform is built to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and comply with corporate rules on data access, retention and […] More

Four companies have won task orders worth up to $60 million combined to develop tools and sensors for the Department of Homeland Security to scan its network for security risks, Federal Times reported Thursday. Nicole Blake Johnson writes these awards fall under DHS’ $6 billion continuous monitoring program, which is handled by the General Services Administration. […] More

On the heels of the late 2013 release of his second book, Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, Juan Zarate caught up with ExecutiveBiz to discuss his and the Treasury Department’s work in the years after 9/11 to promote U.S. national security interests through sophisticated global financial campaigns. As the […] More