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Many enterprise organizations will shift to a posture that sees them operate under the assumption that they have already suffered a computer security breach and cloud computing will be a factor in that approach, two cybersecurity executives from Microsoft have told ExecutiveBiz. Scott Price, general manager of the software giant’s national security group, identified that […] More
Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company is working with the U.S. Navy to implement the service’s interconnectedness goals, the Daily Transcript reported Wednesday. Wenzel noted that there are Navy officers who say they need to operate in a networked system “rather than as individual ships, doing their own thing,” Tony Lovitt […] More
Roger Baker, chief strategy officer at Agilex, wrote in a blog post published Monday that he learned during his service in federal government that an incremental and agile development methodology could improve the success rate for information technology programs. Baker said the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act offers an opportunity for federal chief information officers […] More
Gulu Gambhir, chief technology officer at Leidos, has noted the company’s efforts to encourage its workforce to put technology ideas forward. “Supporting employees with resources like money and time, repeatable innovation-related processes, and a culture tolerant of risk-taking and ‘successful’ failure encourages innovation,” Gambhir said in an interview published Thursday on the Fairfax County Chamber […] More
Carahsoft Technology Corp. will offer Paxata’s adaptive data preparation application and platform to government customers. Paxata built the platform to automate and govern data integration and enrichment process functions, Paxata said Thursday. Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, said Paxata sought to fill a technology gap between a data management system provided by Cloudera […] More
Bill Toti shifted into a new role at Cubic earlier this year as president of the San Diego-based contractor’s global defense segment, which formed through a consolidation initiative. Cubic combined its defense systems business with the mission support services unit, which Toti previously led as president since he joined the company in July 2014. In […] More
Raytheon expects to add as many as 250 positions through an expansion of the company’s systems modernization and sustainment facility in Indianapolis. The company said Monday it currently employs approximately 1,000 workers at the site to upgrade, engineer, install and maintain computer or weapon systems for military customers. “The work Raytheon does in Indianapolis supports some of the most […] More
Susan Keys started the current chapter of her GovCon and information technology career last year when she took a vice president role at Avaya‘s federal business organization — Avaya Government Solutions. Her career includes stops at commercial and GovCon firms such as Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and more recently Riverbed Technology. Keys recently caught up with […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a $23 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a construction plan for the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh Lessig writes the goal is for HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to apply cost and efficiency measures the shipbuilder used during the […] More
CACI International will continue its support for U.S. Army sensor and imaging systems modeling and simulation work following the award of a 12-month, $43 million task order contract under the Strategic Services Sourcing vehicle. The company will provide engineering support to the service’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate to help in the evaluation of sensor technologies and […] More
Military and intelligence organizations are poised to leverage higher-resolution satellite images to drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as of last month, higher-resolution images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the U.S. […] More
Lockheed Martin wants its international sales to reach 25 percent of the company’s total revenue over the next few years in a move to mitigate the impact of shrinking defense spending, the Washington Post reported Friday. Bruce Tanner, Lockheed’s chief financial officer, told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that a majority of that revenue is tied to contracts the U.S. government […] More
