The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a proposers day on Jan. 31 in McLean, Virginia, to discuss a program that aims to develop a system that would facilitate secure exchange of sensitive information through a handheld device. DARPA said Tuesday it seeks to help deployed troops share classified information without the need to route traffic through secure data centers […] More

Howard Steinman serves as a partner and leader for the Americas region public sector practice at A.T. Kearney out of the global consulting and professional services firm’s Washington, D.C. office. The Center for Strategic and International Studies recognizes Steinman as a subject matter expert in the field of homeland security and he has focused much of […] More

Scott Scheimreif oversees Iridium‘s government programs in his executive vice president role at the McLean, Va.-based communications services contractor. He also manages the company’s work under a five-year, $400 million contract awarded to Iridium in October 2013 for airtime services to the Defense Department through the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services program with the Defense Information Systems Agency. Scheimreif recently spoke […] More

Exelis has obtained a National Security Agency certification for the company’s self-encrypting memory drive. The memory stick is built to give users data-at-rest, data-in-transit, communications, networking and storage services, Exelis said Thursday. Mark Adams, vice president and general manager of Exelis’ specialty applications business, said the company has gone through “successive rounds” to get NSA certifications […] More