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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.
In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed amount in Atlas Wearables to help that company further develop a technology for monitoring physical activities. Atlas’ flagship wristband product is designed to employ machine learning and analytics to help athletes and fitness professionals monitor workout routine, heart rate and calories burned, Atlas said Monday. The Austin, Texas-based technology firm […] More
AtrocityWatch has licensed a social analytics technology from Mitre Corp. in an effort to help peacekeepers forecast humanitarian atrocities globally. Mitre said Wednesday the nonprofit organization intends to use the platform to detect early indicators of war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity. “We are honored to see MITRE’s vision and pioneering research in […] More
Raytheon has designed and built a maritime surveillance hub for maritime agencies in the Philippines under a contract with the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The National Coast Watch Center is equipped with Raytheon-made technologies that work to detect and deter security threats near Philippine territorial waters, the company said Monday. “The center’s opening represents our […] More
NASA and America Makes: National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute have created a three-dimensional printing contest aimed at helping the space agency design and build new systems for inhabiting deep space. The 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge is created through the agency’s Centennial Challenges Program and offers up to $2.25 million in prizes, NASA said Saturday. The […] More
FireEye has collaborated with Microsoft to analyze a command and control obfuscated tool that attempted to compromise the security of a Microsoft-run information technology community portal. FireEye said Thursday it determined that the China-based hacker group APT17 employed an obfuscation method to encode C2 communications on Microsoft TechNet website’s profile pages and forum threads. Hackers […] More
Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense, space and security business, believes industry must strive to address barriers to accelerating weapon innovation, he told Aviation Week in an interview published Thursday. He added that companies need to understand customer needs and “show them the art of the possible from an innovation perspective,” according to […] More
The District of Columbia’s Department of General Services has partnered with BuildingIQ to implement a cloud-based energy management technology at eight public facilities within the capital. BuildingIQ will deliver its Predictive Energy Optimization platform to DGS-managed hospitals, schools and offices with the goal of helping the establishments save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, DGS […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is accepting industry proposals that intend to research methods and tools for IARPA to gather data from multiple sources. According to a broad agency announcement posted Monday on FedBizOpps, IARPA’s Office of Smart Collection looks to develop sensor and data transmission systems as well as multisource intelligence gathering techniques. […] More
Northrop Grumman has designed a Venus mission aircraft technology as the company aims to compete for an upcoming $1 billion NASA planetary science program, Space News reported Tuesday. Dan Leone writes that Northrop wants to propose its Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform to the space agency’s next New Frontiers competition in fiscal 2016. “I think we […] More
Julie Cullivan, chief information officer of FireEye, has said the company uses an adaptive framework to defend its enterprise systems against a security breach, V3.co.uk reported Tuesday. She was quoted as saying that FireEye has been a target of attacks because it releases specific reports about incidents linked to hacker groups and nation-states. “We’re tightly […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps is examining land-based robotic technologies in order to help infantry soldiers with their patrolling, explosive disposal and combat missions, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. David Walsh writes the military service is working to modify a QinetiQ North America-designed unmanned ground vehicle as part of the branch’s Combat Robotics System development program. “We started CRS […] More
An Intel subsidiary and AlienVault have agreed to exchange cyber-related threat data in order to help enterprise customers avoid security breaches and hacks. Intel Security plans to leverage AlienVault’s crowd-sourced Open Threat Exchange network in conjunction with Intel’s cloud-based Global Threat Intelligence platform to secure client systems, AlienVault said Tuesday. “Our goal for OTX is […] More
