Joseph Maguire, former acting director of national intelligence and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined the board of advisers at venture-backed Orchestra Macrosystems. The 36-year Navy veteran joins Orchestra’s advisory board to help guide the Houston-based predictive analytics software vendor in business development and growth initiatives, the company said Thursday. Maguire noted that […] More

The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is funding research by Orchestra Macrosystems to help reduce non-combat musculoskeletal injuries among U.S. airmen. The training management software company said Friday that it will design a data capture capability to predict instances of MSKIs during U.S. Air Force training under a Small Business Innovative Research Phase […] More

The U.S. Air Force has tapped Orchestra Macrosystems, a predictive analytics software developer, to help the Exercise Science Unit in creating Tier-2 airmen fitness assessment tests under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract. The company said Thursday it would formulate processes for data capture, analysis and visualization designed to assist Air Force leaders […] More

Robert Schofield, director of enterprise solutions at NetCentrics, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Friday about the four questions information technology and security team leaders at federal agencies should expect and consider answering when it comes to implementing security orchestration.

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Cyberbit has unveiled a new version of the company’s SOC 3D automation and orchestration platform offering in an effort to help shorten the incident response times for customers. The new SOC 3D platform is designed to automate SOC runbooks and workflows and schedule incidents based on their business impact, Cyberbit said Tuesday. “The cost of […] More

Sponsored Content Providing communications services to the government is a big challenge. It takes research, planning, RFPs, analysis, integration and execution. The true litmus test, of course, is how effectively the deployment works in the end. Will it deliver the access and speeds required, and seamlessly integrate with disparate systems? Does it meet the needs of […] More

Open source and standards organization leaders are set to participate at the MEF16 UNITE Partner Summit in an effort to advance the use of standardized open application programming interfaces to drive the development of orchestrated services. MEF said Monday the summit will be part of the MEF16 conference that aims to further standardization to support orchestrated on-demand connectivity and […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and Phantom have forged a strategic alliance that seeks to combine the former’s cyber intelligence expertise with the latter’s security automation and orchestration technology in a push to help increase the resilience of enterprise systems against threats. The partnership aims offer a portfolio of automation and orchestration platforms to support incident response and threat defense operations […] More

Thales‘ Vormetric company has unveiled a tool that works to provide security orchestration for the Vormetric Data Security Platform of products with encryption across data centers and cloud environments. Vormetric said Thursday the Thales Orchestrator is comprised of a patented system that helps deploy encryption and rotate encryption keys without taking applications offline as well as a cloud-based service to manage Salesforce Platform Encryption key […] More

Mike Fluharty currently serves as president and a managing partner at True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business with a wide portfolio of cybersecurity offerings. His interest in technology began during his college years, and his first career position at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services solidified his passion for the field. Since then, […] More

David Kapusta has been selected to serve as executive vice president of integration of Xcelerate Solutions. In this role, he will guide the company’s merger with VMD Corp and promote a shared strategy and consolidated operations, resources and capabilities, Xcelerate announced from McLean, Virginia on Tuesday.

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Garret Goldstein, vice president of North America Public Sector Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat, has an extensive background in the information technology market. He is a strong advocate for partnerships between companies with shared goals, something he views as highly beneficial for serving public sector clients. Goldstein recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview in which he detailed Red Hat’s approach to partnerships and highlighted the ways the company is changing how it engages with the ecosystem.

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