RSA has supplied the Department of Homeland Security with an enterprise-grade platform meant to provide user visibility into potential threats to federal information technology systems, GCN reported Wednesday. William Jackson writes that DHS chose RSA’s Archer visualization tool to manage governance, risk and compliance activities under the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative. Archer will […] More

It was announced that under mutually agreeable terms that Doug Smith has left Oceus Networks as chief executive officer. Smith commented to GovCon Executive that it is an appropriate time for this transition: “Oceus has successfully made the transition from commercial wireless technology provider within Ericsson Inc. to what the company is today. The leader in […] More

Ryan Hartman, CEO of Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, said the business is looking to make its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle commercially available for agricultural and environmental uses, Avionics Magazine reported Wednesday. Woodrow Bellamy III writes that Hartman wants to adopt a UAV commercialization strategy similar to the one Insitu used when it entered the defense market. […] More

Ted Davies joined McLean, Virginia-based national security and technology services contractor Altamira in July as CEO after nearly six years as president of Unisys‘ federal government arm — Unisys Federal Systems. Davies took the reins at Altamira nearly a year after the company formed out of a merger between Invertix and Near Infinity, a transaction that was […] More

Tarik Reyes oversees program delivery, strategy and execution in his role as operating unit director for civil information solutions at Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector. Prior to this role, Reyes held a business development leadership role for Northrop’s civil federal and select defense markets and his career also includes stops at Microsoft, Visalign and Bechtel. In this […] More

Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More

Joe Kopfman serves as executive vice president of contracts and administration as well as chief compliance officer at American Systems where he oversees the ethics program, contracts, legal, purchasing, pricing, M&A, security, facilities and general administration support departments within the company. He has been with the firm since 1978 and has served in a number of leadership positions […] More

MRIGlobal announced last week it has received a new $63 million, 10-year contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide analytical chemistry for the National Toxicology Program. MRIGlobal will provide chemical procurement, handling and analytical services in toxicology studies through the National Toxicology Program, examining chemicals found in consumer products and the characteristics […] More

Jessica Nielsen serves as vice president of communications and marketing at Lockheed Martin where she is responsible for all facets of communications at the company’s Information Systems and Global Solutions division. She previously was executive director of global communications at Dell and was chief of staff to the BAE Systems group communications director from 2009-2011. Nielsen […] More

Engility Holdings President and CEO Tony Smeraglinolo says the company is continuing its decade-long support for the Treasury Department through a recompete contract for the department’s Secure Payment System program. The company announced Wednesday that its Dynamics Research Corp. subsidiary was awarded the $13.4 million contract from the department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Engility expects to to help the bureau’s payment […] More

Anne Altman, general manager for IBM‘s U.S. federal business, suggests that a blend of public and private cloud elements could offer government agencies more control and better security, Nextgov reported Monday. She writes that the hybrid model is gaining traction in the federal market as agencies migrate their information technology functions to the cloud. “It […] More

A test site for unmanned aircraft systems using a safety management system developed by Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. is one of six partners chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration to support UAS integration research. MTSI said Friday the Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation, operated by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, will help FAA study the safe integration […] More