Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at F5 Networks, has recommended federal information technology officials focus on what he describes as fundamental things necessary to address cyber threats. Wood wrote in a blog post published Wednesday on Carahsoft‘s website that cyber attacks, threat vectors and a large selection of potential security offerings can be overwhelming federal […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet has completed its first live air-to-air kill test on a drone over a military test range off of California’s coastline Thursday. Lockheed said Monday Maj. Raven LeClair, U.S. Air Force test pilot, fired an AIM-9X missile towards an aerial drone target through the use of the plane’s mission systems sensors identification and targeting capacity to track information […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled the $2 million Spectrum Collaboration Challenge that seeks to develop software-defined radios that could work with other simultaneously operating radios in the electromagnetic spectrum. The phased challenge will begin in 2017 and run for three years and has 30 slots available to interested participants who will contend to develop spectrum-sharing radio-frequency communications, DARPA said […] More

The Identity Theft Resource Center found during a study that there were 781 publicly reported data breaches across the U.S. public and private sectors during 2015. Forty-percent of those breaches tracked by ITRC occurred in the business sector, an 8.1 percent increase from 2014 figures, the center said Jan. 25. Healthcare organizations had the second highest percentage of data security incidents last […] More

Howard Byrd, director of federal contracts at Deloitte Services LP, joined other panelists in a Compusearch Software Systems-hosted discussion on the migration to the “next generation” of government contracts management. The GovCon Contracts Maturity panel discussion was the first in Compusearch’s Executive Panel series on GovCon best practices, Compusearch said Tuesday. Other panelists include Kelly […] More

Falls Church, Virginia-based CSRA made its highly-anticipated entry into the government contracting market Nov. 30 and in conjunction started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company listed in both the S&P 500 composite index and Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index of 30 contractor stocks. CSRA formed through a merger of the former Computer Sciences Corp. North American public sector […] More

A MeriTalk-formed industry advocacy group has developed a six-step plan that it believes the U.S. government should adopt to increase transparency and efficiency in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP Fast Forward said Monday it crafted the proposal in a move to encourage the federal government to implement a “do-once-use-many” approach to assess and […] More

Deanna Doan, a nearly 20-year program management professional, has joined Allegheny Science & Technology as director of defense and intelligence programs at the McLean, Virginia-based government services provider. She succeeds George Spencer, who will transition into an executive vice president role and support the company’s research, development and demonstration projects in the federal sector, Allegheny […] More

Harris Corp. has begun the installation of the mirrors built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for Northrop Grumman‘s optical technology on NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope. The space agency said Wednesday the team used a robotic system to integrate the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This installation not […] More

Kevin Shelly oversees the global public sector business of San Carlos, California-based enterprise software developer MarkLogic as a group vice president and leads the company’s work in government, healthcare and life science markets. Shelly joined MarkLogic in 2012 after service at Angel as sales VP for government and private sector markets and he is also a former sales SVP for […] More

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the gun system for the conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant of the F-35 jet in three airborne gunfire bursts during a test flight held in California. The company tested how the internal Gun Airborne Unit-22/A 25-millimeter Gatling gun system works during flight as part of preparations for the gun system’s certification and the U.S. Air Force’s […] More

Eglobaltech has been selected to work with the Department of Homeland Security‘s Citizenship and Immigration Services agency on agile development programs. The company will work to coach the client on team building, performance assessment and making recommendations, Eglobaltech said Friday. “eGT’s support will ultimately result in the culmination of useful and practical agile processes that will help deliver […] More