Accenture has appointed Rick Driggers, a cybersecurity expert and former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency executive, as critical infrastructure cyber lead for the company’s federal business. Driggers brings to Accenture Federal Service over three decades of federal government and military experience and will support development of cybersecurity offerings designed to safeguard critical infrastructure, the company said Wednesday. […] More

Ibis Tek, a Saxonburg, Pa.-based portfolio company of Rockwood Equity Partners, has launched a new logo and redesigned website and adopted the name XPER to reflect its experience in manufacturing transparent armor and other defense protection systems.

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Robert Potter, vice president of signals and ground system technology at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, has been named a director of Satcoms Innovation Group, which aims to encourage discussions to identify challenges and opportunities for the sector.

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A Signature Science-led team will help the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity further develop software for screening short DNA sequence patterns during the third phase of IARPA's Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats program.

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Steve Handel, a nearly 20-year technology industry veteran, has joined training simulator provider VirTra as vice president of program management.

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The General Services Administration has asked industry to submit ideas on how GSA can implement a governmentwide system to analyze and manage federal information technology investments. GSA said Monday it aims to implement a TBM platform across the federal government by 2022 in a push to increase transparency in IT spending efforts. TBM will work to help agencies […] More

Seven companies have gained priority status to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to obtain a provisional authority-to-operate for different cloud technology and service offerings. FedRAMP said Tuesday the seven cloud service providers were selected to participate in the FedRAMP Connect initiative based on government demand for the companies’ products and a set […] More

CGI has unveiled a new records management platform meant to help government agencies meet the White House’s target dates for the government-wide electronic records management modernization directive. The company said Monday its Records Management as a Service offering is based on OpenText‘s Content Suite platform and Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing system. CGI added it designed RMaaS to meet the Defense Department‘s electronics records […] More

Microsoft has teamed up with Taser International to develop and deploy a cloud platform that will work to help law enforcement officials collect and manage digital evidence. Microsoft said Monday it will integrate its Azure cloud computing platform and Windows 10 devices with Taser’s Axon suite of body cameras and Evidence.com offering that works to […] More