The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate and the Israeli ministry of public security have announced a potential $1 million grant opportunity for developers of first responder technologies. DHS said Wednesday the NextGen First Responder Technologies program seeks new protective clothing, situational awareness and wearable platforms that can work to help  address capacity gaps listed on the […] More

D-Wave Systems has established a new subsidiary that will work to provide quantum computer systems to U.S. government agencies and has appointed executives that will serve on the subsidiary’s independent board. The company said Tuesday Jeffrey Harris, chairman of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and former president of special programs at Lockheed Martin, will serve as chairman […] More

The Justice Department has awarded a total of $6.3 million in grants to eight organizations to support their studies on law enforcement investigations and police-community relations. DOJ said Friday the studies are designed to find new strategies that will work to boost police-community collaboration, aid officer wellness and safety, secure the privacy of witnesses and victims, stop child pornography and […] More

Siemens‘ nonprofit arm has partnered with The Center to Advance CTE and The Center on Education and Skills at New America to expand an initiative that aims to train young adults for middle-skill jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Siemens said Friday Advance CTE will support states and communities’ efforts to recruit students into career technical education programs […] More

HyTrust has worked with the National Institute of Science and Technology and industry partners Intel, RSA and VMware to create the NIST IR 7904 and a proof-of-concept designed to allow secured geolocation in cloud computing environments. Trusted geolocation functions work to monitor the deployment and execution of virtual machines or a workload with reliance on security provided by a Trusted Platform Module […] More

Leidos and the National Institutes of Health have developed a website that aims to match unfunded biomedical research proposals with alternative funding opportunities through public-private partnerships. The team has created the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research portal, which works to assess proposals based on research priority areas and allow participating organizations to fund research not originally funded by NIH, […] More

U.S. News & World Report has selected this year’s STEM Leadership Hall of Fame award honorees, citing their leadership in education and workforce development programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The Hall of Fame inductees are: Craig Barrett, retired chairman and CEO of Intel Eduardo Padron, president of Miami Dade College Maria Klawe, president of Harvey […] More

Stu Shea, formerly president and chief operating officer at Leidos, has joined the board of trustees at nonprofit scientific research company Riverside Research. Riverside Research said Friday it appointed Shea for his close-to three decades of experience at technology-focused government contractors in background in strategy and business development. “I am honored to be part of a company that […] More

Sarah Allen serves as executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Leidos, where she also is a member of the Leidos Relief Foundation’s board of directors. She joined the company in September 2008 when the company was known as Science Applications International Corp. and has served as HR senior VP for a group of […] More

Dr. S. Gulu Gambhir serves as a senior vice president and chief technology officer at Leidos, where he manages technology products and innovation programs intended to drive company growth. He joined the company in 2009 when it was known as Science Applications International Corp. and has also directed TASC‘s science and technology subsidiary when that […] More

Nazzic Keene, a three-decade technology industry veteran, serves as a sector president at Science Applications International Corp. She is responsible for customer relationship management, pipeline growth strategy development and program implementation across the organization. Keene joined the company in 2012 as a senior vice president for corporate strategy and planning. Prior to joining SAIC, she […] More

Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More