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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
Ian Graham, general counsel of BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, believes that an organization must incorporate discipline into its efforts to retain a diverse team of legal professionals, Bloomberg BNA reported Thursday. Graham, who also serves as a senior vice president and corporate secretary at BAE Systems Inc., told the audience during a panel discussion hosted by […] More
Max Peterson, a general manager at Amazon Web Services‘ global public sector business, has said the cloud computing market could create as many as 14 million new jobs during 2015, BusinessNewsAsia reported Wednesday. “Cloud represents a huge opportunity for good jobs and economic development,” Peterson told the audience during his keynote speech Wednesday at Cloud Expo Asia […] More
The U.S. Defense Department has chosen a Battelle-Purdue University alliance to evaluate and recommend strategies for U.S. Army-run science, technology, engineering and math education programs, The Purdue Exponent reported Wednesday. Sarah Kennedy writes Purdue University received a $5.25 million grant to support the military branch’s Educational Outreach Program in collaboration with Battelle. Louie Lopez, Army’s AEOP cooperative […] More
Pwnie Express will offer and provide a company-built security threat detection technology to U.S. government agencies through an acquisition contract vehicle run by the General Services Administration. The company said Tuesday it also partnered with gvTechSolutions to help customer agencies protect their infrastructure assets from attacks with the Pwn Pulse platform. “Adversaries know that organizations, both in the private and public sector, spend […] More
Lockheed Martin will move forward with the full-scale fabrication phase of its Orion spacecraft for NASA‘s Exploration Mission-1 as the agency and company have reported most of a critical design review as complete. “The vast majority of Orion’s design is over, and now we will only change things when new requirements come into play,” Michael Hawes, a […] More
A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts the value of the global unmanned aerial vehicles market to hit $14.9 billion in 2020, with an 8.12 percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2020. The research firm said Tuesday the UAV market’s value reached $10.1 billion this year and North America accounted for about 65.53 percent market share. Technological […] More
Intel has decided to stop offering its portfolio of McAfee software-as-a-service email security and archiving platforms by Jan. 11, 2016, TechWeekEurope UK reported Friday. Tom Jowitt writes the company’s security unit will continue to provide support services for Email Archiving, Encryption and Protection & Continuity products through Jan. 11, 2019. Intel also set Jan. 11, […] More
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a four-year contract extension to continue to support targeting pods and data links for the Australian air force’s fleet of F/A-18 Hornet combat jets. The company said Sunday it will provide logistics support services for Hornet Target Designation Systems at air bases in Williamtown, New South Wales, and Tindal, Northern […] More
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced a cybersecurity project that aims to identify methods to integrate commercial privacy protection technology and brokered identity management service offerings. NIST said Thursday many organizations now allow customers to manage their online accounts through the use of third-party credentials and the agency believes the approach could drive user tracking […] More
A report from CounterTack|MCSI has shown that 49 percent of 639 U.S. information technology professionals surveyed by the Ponemon Institute have adopted a “wait-and-see” stance on enterprise cyber defense. Nearly 30 percent of respondents said they consider nation-state attacks as a form of cyber warfare, CounterTack | MCSI said Wednesday. The security firm observed state-sponsored hackers targeting personal identifiable […] More
The U.S. Army wants information on potential vendors that can help build and demonstrate autonomous unmanned vehicle sensing platforms intended to operate in GPS-challenged locations. The Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center is interested in acquiring architectures and services for the Autonomous Unmanned Systems Teaming and Collaboration in GPS Denied Environments project, the military branch […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has partnered with Adacel to provide training services at 23 U.S. Federal Aviation Administration-run air traffic control centers under a potential five-year, $727 million contract SAIC holds with the FAA. Adacel said Wednesday it will act as a subcontractor to SAIC in the FAA Controller Training program. The companies will help educate air traffic controllers through classroom, laboratory and […] More
