Leonardo DRS’ Todd Hicks: Military, Industry Work Together to Address Cyber Threats
Todd Hicks, chief technology officer at Leonardo DRS, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday how industry helps the military address cyber challenges.
Jane Edwards
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
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Israel-based Elbit Systems has agreed to acquire the night vision business of Harris, which now operates as L3Harris Technologies, for $350M and CEO Bezhalel Machlis said he expects to close the transaction in the early fourth quarter of 2019, Reuters reported Thursday.
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HighPoint’s Sudhir Pucha on Citizen Service Platforms
Sudhir Pucha, vice president of information technology at HighPoint Global, wrote in an article that the adoption of IT DevOps processes has resulted in the development of project management portals and other platforms used to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens.
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Smartsheet Gov Platform Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization; Ignacio Martinez Comments
Cloud-based work management system provider Smartsheet has received a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Smartsheet Gov platform.
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Renee Michael Named Exiger Associate Managing Director
Renee Michael, former forensic accounting leader at the FBI, has joined financial crime and risk compliance company Exiger as an associate managing director.
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ICF Named ‘Fast Moving’ Brand in Government Sector; Mark Lee Quoted
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Four Firms Submit Proposals for Air Force Launch Service Phase 2 Competition
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Raytheon Uses Agile, DevOps Techniques to Accelerate Software Dev’t; Todd Probert Quoted
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Mitre: Air Force Should Expand Bases, Raise Aircraft Mission-Capable Rates to 80%
A new Mitre study says the U.S. Air Force should expand four additional bases in the Pacific to accommodate operations of up to 24 bombers and 18 tankers as well as procure and field “large magazines of long-range standoff weapons†to counter anti-access/area denial threats, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday.
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HP Federal’s Todd Gustafson on Three Steps Agencies Should Consider to Build Up Endpoint Security Posture
Todd Gustafson, president of HP’s federal business, wrote in an article published Tuesday on FedTech that there are three steps government agencies should do to protect endpoint devices from cyber threats and the first is to acknowledge cybersecurity gaps.