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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.
A Frost & Sullivan report forecasts that the global revenue for network security sandboxing tools will grow from $536.8 million in 2014 to $3.5 billion by 2019. Frank Dickson, a research director at Frost & Sullivan and the market analysis report’s author, said the emergence of advanced persistent threats creates a need for organizations to […] More
Parsons and three other companies have formed a consortium to help finance, design, build and maintain a highway bypass in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan through a public-private partnership. The project will have a 58-kilometer, four-lane highway as well as flyovers, service roads and 11 interchanges, Parsons said Wednesday. Regina Bypass Partners consists of Parsons’ […] More
A Raytheon-commissioned global survey has found that organizations differ in their cybersecurity posture outlooks and face different challenges in terms of cyber readiness and governance. Ashok Sankar, senior director of cyber product strategy and management at Raytheon, writes the 2015 Global Megatrends in Cybersecurity study says more than half of information technology leaders from the government […] More
Microsoft has received a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a cloud-based customer relationship management platform in the government sector. The authority-to-operate approval is for the company’s Dynamics CRM Online Government product suite, Bob Stutz, corporate vice president of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, said Wednesday. […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has finished the critical design review of an atmospheric pollution measurement tool that the company is developing for NASA under the agency’s Earth Venture Instrument program. NASA plans to integrate the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument into a commercial satellite to measure Earth’s ozone, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde concentrations over […] More
A task force formed by the Information Technology Industry Council‘s IT Alliance for Public Sector division has recommended multiple approaches for the U.S. government to bolster the federal cyber posture and ward off potential threats. ITAPS on Thursday sent the recommendations to Beth Cobert, acting director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal CIO […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has placed a $9.8 million order for 75 small unmanned ground vehicles from iRobot. The lightweight man-portable SUGV includes a manipulator device intended to facilitate dismounted mobile operations and is designed to access locations that are not safe for people to enter, iRobot said Monday. USMC is scheduled to […] More
Mike Denning, vice president of global security at Verizon‘s enterprise solutions unit, and Ed Powers, national managing principal of Deloitte‘s cyber risk services practice, have said organizations need to consider technical and business factors when they plan for response to security incidents. Denning observed that privileged users have become an attractive target for hackers who […] More
U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of the branch’s Space Command, declared initial operating capability Tuesday for a Lockheed Martin-built joint service satellite communications system. The Air Force said Thursday its 4th Space Operations Squadron operates the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, which is designed to help warfighters transmit protected data when they perform land, sea and air […] More
Northrop Grumman has awarded Ferry Engineering a contract to manufacture structural components for the first four MQ-4C Triton drones that Northrop is building for the U.S. Navy. Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop’s Australian arm, said Thursday the business intends to partner with local suppliers to produce and sustain Triton unmanned aircraft systems for the […] More
Jack London, CACI International‘s executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors, said during a keynote speech Wednesday at a National Contract Management Association event that ethical practices are fundamental to the government contracting process. “Trust, confidence, and integrity are what drive successful contract management … and they are driven by character,” London told […] More
A Raytheon|Websense-commissioned study has revealed that unintentional human mistakes are the primary cause of many information technology security incidents at U.S. and German companies. Seventy-percent of U.S. security professionals surveyed by Ponemon Institute attributed employee negligence to insider threat cases and 64 percent of German security personnel acknowledged the problem during the survey, Raytheon|Websense said […] More
