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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.
Orbital ATK has started to produce 120mm kinetic energy cartridges for the U.S. Army‘s Abrams battle tanks after the technology completed acceptance testing. The company said Monday it will manufacture the M829E4 advanced kinetic energy tactical tank rounds under a potential three-year, $80 million contract with the military service. Dan Olson, Orbital ATK vice president […] More
Todd Helfrich, director of the federal business at ThreatStream has created a checklist of information technology measures he believes the U.S. government agencies should include in their cybersecurity plans. Helfrich wrote in a piece published Friday on GCN that agencies need to implement cyber threat intelligence tools to help them identify and automate responses to […] More
Cask Technologies has been awarded two contracts worth $50 million combined to support information technology systems that the U.S. Marine Corps use to manage personnel and payroll. The U.S. Defense Department said Friday the first contract covers program analytical and technical services for the Marine Corps Total Force Information Technology Systems and four offers were […] More
The gap between the market values of commercial aerospace and defense and government services companies narrowed during 2015’s second quarter, according to a Bluestone Capital Partners report. The investment banking firm said it found the number of government services transactions rose 28 percent year-to-date and an improvement in public company valuations helped drive initial public […] More
A new Technavio report says the global market for security services is poised to gain a 10.13 percent year-over-year growth from 2014 to 2019. Technavio analysts observed government and commercial organizations investing in security service offerings to prevent theft of enterprise information and unauthorized data access, ReportBuyer said Thursday. The research firm used revenue data […] More
A Kaman subsidiary has received a $23 million order to provide an undisclosed number of programmable aerial bomb fuzes to the U.S. Air Force. Kaman said Thursday it has produced Joint Programmable Fuze systems for the military branch since 2002. The JPF is designed to integrate with Joint Direct Attack Munition and Paveway guidance kits […] More
A Rockwell Collins subsidiary has been awarded a contract to help manage repair of avionics on the Dutch military’s Pilatus PC-7 trainer aircraft. Intertrade plans to acquire aircraft components from multiple suppliers for the Netherlands’ PC-7 avionics repair program, Thierry Tosi, vice president and general manager of service solutions at Rockwell Collins, said Wednesday. The […] More
Research and Markets has published a report that sets a 14.17 percent compound annual growth rate for the global industrial cybersecurity market from 2014 to 2019. The research firm said Wednesday manufacturing and power generation companies invest in information technology security tools to protect their assets from keyloggers, adware, crimeware and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Smart […] More
The U.S. needs to launch more programs aimed at teaching software development and engineering skills to young women, Lockheed Martin executive Stephanie Hill and Business Software Alliance President and CEO Victoria Espinel wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday in The Hill newspaper. Espinel and Hill, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s information systems […] More
Oceus Networks has refreshed its portable 4G LTE broadband network technology in an effort to help military and emergency response organizations secure wireless communications during their missions. Xiphos is derived from an LTE macro radio system and built to facilitate mobile voice, data and video communications, Oceus said Tuesday. “We’ve worked closely with our users to […] More
A cross-section of U.S. cybersecurity firms has set up a coalition to stop the enactment of a new Commerce Department rule governing the overseas sale of some information technology security products. The Coalition for Responsible Cybersecurity said Tuesday it aims to educate the U.S. government on how the department’s proposed cybersecurity technology export policy could […] More
FireEye security professionals have found that the China-based APT3 persistent threat group has used an unpatched Adobe Flash Player zero-day bug to launch a spear phishing campaign against multiple U.S. industries, FCW reported Monday. Mark Rockwell writes FireEye identified aerospace, defense, construction, engineering, transportation, high-technology and telecommunication companies as the targets in APT3’s Operation Clandestine […] More
