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Brian Harrell, former assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security and current chief security officer of energy company Avangrid, has joined the advisory board of Reston, Virginia-based threat intelligence firm LookingGlass Cyber Solutions.
Zscaler has been prioritized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's Joint Authorization Board to pursue high-impact level certification for a network security technology offering to handle sensitive and unclassified government data in cloud environments.
Firefly Aerospace has appointed Deborah Lee James and Robert Cardillo, who are both Wash100 Award recipients, to its board of directors, joining Firefly CEO Tom Markusic. The board will be led by James, who will serve as chairman. “We are thrilled to have Debbie and Robert join the Firefly Board of Directors,†said Markusic.Â
Lumen Technologies and VMware have expanded their partnership to increase design, development and delivery time of edge computing, as well as deliver more secure, work-from-anywhere systems. “The Lumen-VMware partnership will provide the exact combination required to transform business processes and customer experience,†said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer of VMware.
Northrop Grumman used a surrogate unmanned aircraft system fitted with technology from U.K.-based Ultra to demonstrate anti-submarine warfare capability in October. The company said Tuesday it tested Ultra's ASW sonobuoys, processor and receiver on a crewed Bell 407 vertical lift aircraft modified to serve as a surrogate to the MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS.
Seattle-based company ExtraHop was tasked to help inform the U.S. Air Force of its network and infrastructure operations that can be optimized to enhance base personnel's experience while teleworking.
The Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex-41 in Florida has undergone modifications led by United Launch Alliance as part of preparations for the Vulcan Centaur spacecraft's maiden launch this year.
A multirole fighter jet built by Boeing flew for the first time Tuesday at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri for the evaluation of the aircraft's digital backbone and its mission preparedness.
Viasat has showcased the capacity of its software-defined networking router to handle multipath data transmission during a live exercise with the U.S. Army and other stakeholders from the defense, government, academic and private sectors.
COMSovereign Holding has closed its acquisition of a 140,000-square-foot production facility in Tucson, Arizona, and plans to use the site to manufacture its line of 5G and 4G LTE wireless radios and electronic products, aerostat and drone platforms and intelligent battery and power supply systems.
Intel and Google’s cloud computing arm have joined a National Institutes of Health program that seeks to provide COVID-19 researchers access to biomedical data from underrepresented groups as part of efforts to improve population health. The NIH All of Us Research Program will make biomedical information available to researchers through the Researcher Workbench platform, which is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and hosted on Google Cloud.
CyberSheath Services International has begun offering a suite of information technology services intended to help contracting firms manage compliance with existing and new requirements for securing Department of Defense assets.
