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Many Fortune 500 companies are seeking to hire chief information security officers or board directors who have experience and skills in cybersecurity, Reuters reported Friday. Nadia Damouni writes that Cardinal Health, Deere & Co., JPMorgan Chase, PepsiCo and The United Services Automobile Association are among the firms that are searching data security professionals in order […] More
PAE has received a $9 million task order from the State Department to carry forward the company’s criminal justice system support services work for a United Nations mission in Liberia. The company will work with the UN and the Liberian government to build up the skills of Liberia’s justice personnel and law enforcers, PAE said […] More
Lockheed Martin will work with government, academic and business organizations in Canada’s province of Alberta to develop technologies in areas such as computing, water management and consumer electronics under an agreement between the company and the provincial government. The goal of the collaboration is to connect the expertise of Lockheed and Alberta’s technology workers to […] More
Salesforce.com has received authorization from the Department of Health and Human Services to operate the Salesforce Government Cloud service that looks to provide government customers with platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service offerings. The company said Friday the cloud offering enables clients to customize or expand applications through the Salesforce1 Platform or develop new applications within a single, web-based environment. “Government organizations need to be assured […] More
NetApp has opened a 155,000-square-foot research and development laboratory in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park to host the development and testing of NetApp’s storage and data management producs. Rich Clifton, NetApp’s executive vice president of customer success operations, said Friday. that the company opened the laboratory to function as a “global backbone for delivering enterprise-class service and […] More
A new McKinsey & Co. study has highlighted the potential economic risks posed by a growing number of cyberattacks amid companies with cybersecurity capabilities that are still in the emergent stage. Poll authors Tucker Bailey, Andrea Del Miglio and Wolf Richter, who conducted the study in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, found that a majority […] More
Northrop Grumman’s global workforce works to leverage the modularity and scalability of the company’s Support Anywhere logistics platform to deliver projects for clients, John Patrick Batache, a company enterprise shared services director, told reporters at the National Press Club Wednesday. Northrop looks to this flexibility when it works to execute mission and budget objectives of […] More
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers from the Sterling family trust for $2 billion, ESPN reported Friday. Shelly Sterling, sole trustee of the Sterling family trust, inked the sale agreement with Ballmer on Thursday, according to the report. “We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers […] More
The Northrop Grumman team supporting Annapolis, Maryland’s Robinwood Community Center as instructors on the center’s robotics program has received the city’s Martha Wood Leadership Award for its contributions to the local community. The company said Thursday the Robinwood Robotics Program is part of the community center’s seven-year partnership with Northrop Grumman’s African-American Task Group, an employee resource group. The […] More
Bill McMullen, president and CEO of Reston, Va.-based services contractor WBB, joined the company in 1994 after a 27-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps that included service as a commanding officer and at headquarters. McMullen took the leadership reigns at WBB in 2008 and has since led WBB through a period of major wins on […] More
Alion Science and Technology will help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency develop a boron-coated straw system to detect dirty bombs and special nuclear materials under a $2.8 million contract. Alion said Thursday that agencies have traditionally used Helium-3 neutron detectors but a shortage of the rare isotope is driving agencies to seek a replacement technology. The company will […] More
IBM and the Philippines’ department of science and technology have collaborated to build a central hub for coordinating emergency response and relief efforts in the event of a natural disaster in the Philippines. The Quezon City-based Intelligent Operations Center was built through the company’s impact grant program and will work to help Philippine government agencies with disaster […] More
