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Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has recommended several ways to safeguarding the country’s energy infrastructure from cyber attacks. He noted on the Verizon blog Tuesday that organizations that operate and monitor U.S. energy and utility systems need cybersecurity framework especially now that the grid has become modernized and connected. “As new technologies […] More
Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has urged acquisition officials to be more open to new ways of completing mission tasks, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that Bush believes public procurement professionals should have flexibility in a domain where they are asked to do more with less. “The predicate of negotiating a good contract must […] More
Douglas Steil, general manager of cybersecurity products at BAE Systems, said the company has updated its document manager with watermarking technology to further build up the security product’s features. The company worked on its SIBA data collaboration and dissemination tool in cooperation with Mach 1 Development, the maker of the DocuTRACER technology that tracks where each file was shared […] More
Government customers will be able to purchase unified products from GIS mapping software maker Esri and operational intelligence provider OSIsoft through the immixGroup marketplace. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to make their PI System and ArcGIS tools available under the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 for commercial technology vendors. Esri and […] More
General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic said major restructuring within her company has led to backlog and margin increases despite reporting modest earnings early in her tenure, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Jill Aitoro writes Novakovic has been busy “right-sizing†the firm since she assumed the top post in January 2013, consolidating functions and reorganizing workflows and systems, as well […] More
New RNCOS research has earmarked a compound annual growth rate of 10% for healthcare information technology in the U.S. from 2014 to 2018, thanks to greater collaboration among industry players, updated systems and tighter compliance rules. Increasing mergers and acquisitions activity also plays a role in the upbeat forecast as competing companies close ranks over […] More
Makers of the Urban Observatory interactive exhibit, a project to demonstrate how large amounts of data could be turned into useful information, will unveil the next version of the initiative in San Diego next week. The exhibit underwent an overhaul by inputting data from close to 60 cities this year from the 10 metropolitan areas featured during its launch year, […] More
EMC has unveiled a new enterprise-grade big data offering equipped with Pivotal HD that seeks to combine analytics capabilities and a highly scalable infrastructure. The new Data Lake Hadoop storage arrays include EMC Isilon X410 nodes that have been preconfigured for quick deployment as well as the SQL-compliant Pivotal HAWQ query tool for HDFS file […] More
Engility Holdings has won an $11 million recompete order to provide technical support for the U.S. Navy’s military command in Florida, a contract award that Engility President and CEO Tony Smeraglinolo says is part of the company’s logistics services portfolio. The contract covers logistics assistance work for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s landing craft air cushion […] More
CSC Vice President Jim Kaskade said the company has updated its big data platform as a service offering to include new security and compliance features for “quick, efficient and confident†deployment in various types of datacenters and cloud architectures. The open source solution provides analytics tools that clients can use with the ServiceMesh Agility Platform cloud […] More
C-level executives should take a more proactive role not only in drafting but also in implementing and following through with their enterprise’s cybersecurity policy, McKinsey & Company said in an Insights article published this month. The authors of the report said, however, that while most senior leaders are aware of the implications of a cyber attack, overcoming […] More
Mark Michels, Deloitte Discovery director at Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics, said knowing the downside of bring-your-own-device programs and planning for them in advance puts organizations halfway to solving some of the greater legal challenges of smartphone technology in the workplace. “Understanding how mobile device use differs by global region, the risks un-vetted applications bring […] More
