A report commissioned by Tenable and developed by Ponemon Institute says 88 percent of information security professionals in the public sector said they have experienced at least one damaging cyber breach in the last two years.

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Cybersecurity company Tenable has released a set of proposed guidelines in convincing people of the importance of cybersecurity of public services in local governments, highlighting the role of local officials in essential city functions including public safety and power distribution.

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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has concluded critical design review of a science instrument that will support studies on Europa, a moon that orbits Jupiter.

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Michael Lempke, president of the nuclear and environmental group at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ technical solutions division, has been named chairman of the Energy Facility Contractors Group, ExchangeMonitor reported Wednesday. He will lead the organization that coordinates with the Department of Energy to incorporate operational and business practices across DOE facilities.

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The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has appointed Paul Strasser, president of Brillient, to serve as executive chair of the IAC effective July 1. Tony Scott, a managing partner of Ridge-Lane and former federal chief information officer, will be the council's executive vice chair, ACT-IAC said Wednesday.

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PCM-G, a government-focused subsidiary of PCM, has received rights to sell Microsoft products to the U.S. federal government as an authorized distributor. The company will distribute Microsoft-made licensing and cloud products and services across the federal information technology market, PCM said Tuesday.

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Five Carahsoft Technology executives have been included in CRN magazine’s 2019 Women of the Channel list for their professional accomplishments and commitment in the information technology field.

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Amazon Web Services and Monkton collaborated to develop a mobile application for U.S. Air Force maintainers to view data they need to perform flight line work using mobile devices. Harold Smith, CEO of Monkton, said in a statement posted Tuesday the BRICE app underwent three months of user acceptance testing with support of Monkton's Rebar security tool and AWS' GovCloud.

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NASA has awarded contracts worth $45.5M combined to study and develop human lander prototypes in the next six months in support of its Artemis lunar exploration initiative. The space agency said Friday the companies will produce prototypes of a human landing platform with descent, ascent, transfer and refueling elements and shoulder at least 20 percent of the total development cost under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Appendix E contracts.

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Financial technology provider Innovest Systems has secured authorization to offer products to government agencies through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. 

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Alongside Capital One, the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) announced the 50 fastest growing companies owned and led by women across a wide variety of industries in the Charlotte, N.C. area during the 12th annual awards ceremony on May 2nd. More

The Professional Services Council re-elected several executives and appointed new members to its 2017 executive committee and board of directors during its annual meeting held Thursday. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture’s federal services business; and Deb Alderson, president and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions; were respectively re-elected as PSC’s chair and vice chair, […] More