Booz Allen has compiled a list of 10 cyber trends for 2015 intended to guide financial services on how to position their organizations against evolving cybersecurity threats. “In the months and years ahead, what it means to detect and protect in cyber will be redefined,” Sedar LaBarre, a principal with Booz Allen, said Wednesday. “We are […] More

Kay Kapoor joined AT&T in March 2013 to lead the telecommunications company’s federal business, which has seen several other GovCon and public sector veterans join the organization’s leadership team since then. Kapoor, herself a 25-year telecommunications and contracting veteran, is the recipient of this year’s ACT-IAC Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award in recognition of her mentorship […] More

Jonathan Moneymaker oversees areas such as corporate strategy, business development, capture and legislative affairs in his role as chief strategy officer at Altamira Corp., the company that formed out of the Invertix–Near Infinity merger last year. A former business unit general manager from Boeing, Moneymaker’s GovCon career includes leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions such as Anonymizer‘s combination […] More

Joe Donohue oversees the management and oversight of financial operations at Agilex Technologies as chief financial officer. Donohue’s financial leadership career includes stints at both Marriott and Legent, followed by a role at Integec. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Donohue offers a five-year forecast of the GovCon sector and describes how many services contractors could reshape their portfolios. He […] More

Inmarsat moved closer to fully deploying its $1.6-billion Global Xpress satellite constellation with the conclusion of testing for land terminals from Paradigm Communications and Skyware Technologies. Paradigm met over the air testing and factory acceptance testing requirements for its GX core interface module and Connect 70, Connect 100 and Connect 180 fixed VSAT terminals, Inmarsat said […] More

Battelle‘s Matthew Shaw has outlined what he says is a growing focus of U.S. and international government, intelligence and law enforcement organizations on technologies to detect and classify biological threats that are both natural man-made. Shaw, head of the CBRNE defense business within Battelle’s national security segment, writes in a piece published Monday on Homeland Security Today that the […] More

Reginald Hyde, former Defense Department deputy undersecretary for intelligence and security, has joined the University of Alabama’s Cyber Institute as executive director. He will be responsible for the institute’s interdisciplinary research and educational programs on cybersecurity, big data, digital forensics and embedded systems, UA said Tuesday. “Taking a comprehensive approach to cyber research and education is a priority for the […] More

In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed amount in technology startup Newlans to help the latter company further develop radio frequency modules for wireless communication devices. “The Newlans approach represents a step forward in analog signal processing technology,” Megan Anderson, vice president of IQT’s field deployable technologies practice, said Thursday. Anderson added the company sees Newlans-designed tunable […] More

Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack have joined Google’s open source docker management community. The companies will contribute code to the Kubernetes container management technology and maintain the project as an open container management framework for private, public and hybrid cloud applications, Google said Thursday. Google says the Kubernetes community aims to help […] More

Rockwell Collins is helping Brazil-based Sao Paulo International Airport put the company’s ARINC VeriPax passenger reconciliation system into action and the system went live prior to the start of the 2014 World Cup on June 12. The system is built to improve passenger flow by at least 15 percent by using two-dimensional scanners and automated passenger screening technologies, the company said Monday. “Hosting […] More

Information security may be one of the key areas in government information technology that needs automation through continuous monitoring, Chris LaPoint, SolarWinds vice president of product management, said Monday. He cited SolarWind’s latest public sector survey, which found that many agency IT departments do not consider infosec as a top skill slated for possible automation […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson sought to underscore in a Media Day speech this week the company’s work to bring emerging technologies to the company’s targeted markets through international partnerships and innovation. The chief executive told reporters Monday that Lockheed has already brought several technologies — air traffic control systems and satellites for GPS and […] More