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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.
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's venture capital arm, and Sysdig have entered into a strategic partnership to field a new platform designed to provide government agencies control and insight as they adopt multicloud, containers, Kubernetes and other modern information technology platforms.
Wes Kremer, who took over as president of Raytheon’s missile systems business on March 30, told the Arizona Daily Star in an interview published Sunday that a lot of the company’s weapons development programs are “threat-driven.â€
ManTech International and Purdue University Global have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship program that aims to further build up employees’ cyber capabilities and establish a trained cybersecurity workforce. The Cybersecurity Registered Apprenticeship program will also fund college-level instruction to develop a pipeline of cyber professionals in support of the country’s security requirements, ManTech said Friday.
The U.S. Army plans to award six contracts under the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service program using its “other transaction†authority, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. “We are using the OTA process to do the prototyping of how to execute EITaaS more rapidly,†Tara Clements, a spokesperson for the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, said in an email.
Splunk surveyed over 1.3K information technology managers and found that 77 percent of IT respondents in the public sector said finding and utilizing dark and grey data should be considered a top priority, FedScoop reported Thursday. The survey showed that 76 percent of respondents claimed lack of senior-level support at their agencies was a challenge to using dark and grey data.
Ron Baczkowski, CEO of VT Halter Marine, said the company’s proposed heavy polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard is based on a hull of German research vessel Polar Stern II, USNI News reported Wednesday.
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch said he believes the industry needs new regulations that would mitigate failed satellites and other space debris in orbit, Space Intel Report reported Wednesday. Desch, a 2019 Wash100 winner, said those regulations should include a policy that would ground satellite and rocket developers in the event of an in-orbit failure and require them to determine the cause of the problem.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin’s lunar lander at a press conference held Thursday in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg reported Friday. The Blue Moon lander has an internal spherical power tank atop four landing pads and is powered by liquid hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells.
The Department of Energy and ExxonMobil have signed a 10-year agreement to research and develop technologies designed to reduce emissions from petrochemicals and fossil fuels production. DOE said Wednesday ExxonMobil will invest up to $100M over a decade in the department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and National Energy Technology Laboratory to advance the development of platforms meant to enhance energy efficiency and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
A new Verizon report says cyber espionage, error by insiders and privilege misuse accounted for 72 percent of data breaches in the public sector. Verizon analyzed over 41K security incidents and more than 2K data breaches from 86 countries for the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report and found that 16 percent of breaches occurred in the public sector.
In-Q-Tel and Tamr have formed a strategic partnership that seeks to help government agencies address data unification challenges with the use of a machine learning-based technology. IQT said Wednesday it will help the company further develop and field its patented enterprise software platform Tamr Unify, which uses machine learning and human expertise to unify data across multiple silos to generate insights.
Joel Jackson, senior director of emerging product sales for Red Hat’s North America public sector group, said cloud, microservices and automation are among the modern software design’s building blocks that could reinforce federal information technology modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Monday.
