ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/13/2023

John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, said the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has empowered government agencies to adopt cloud-based platforms to modernize and secure their IT infrastructure. In a LinkedIn article published Thursday, Ustica wrote that the shift to “cloud-smart” policies is helping agencies speed up digital transformation efforts. FedRAMP […]

BigBear.ai’s federal business will compete for task orders to support the development of multidomain systems and deliver synthetic environments and related capabilities to the U.S. Air Force through its position on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architectures and Integration Directorate covers support […]

Planet Labs and NASA Harvest have formed a partnership to create an assessment tool for use in anticipating and mitigating global food shortages and famines. The agreement involves the use of Planet Labs’ satellite and other publicly available datasets, which will be analyzed by NASA’s food security and agriculture program, the company said Thursday. NASA […]

Shannon Vaughn, general manager of Virtru Federal, and Ben Minichino, president of Pole Star Defense, said encrypting location data streams, vessel ID and other information could help mitigate maritime piracy threats. “By encrypting the data and making it accessible only to authorized officials, ships can securely transmit information pertaining to their locations, identities, cargo, and […]

SpiderOak closed a Series C round with $16.4 million in financing that will be utilized to complete on-orbit testing and achieve the flight heritage of OrbitSecure 2.0 offering. Space technology platform Empyrean Technology Solutions led the oversubscribed investment round, which was also participated by Method Capital and OCA Ventures, the zero trust cybersecurity company said Thursday.  […]

SentinelOne has joined the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, an initiative to drive the development of cyber defense operations planning and guidance. The company said Thursday it will offer its autonomous cybersecurity platform to help members of the collaborative enhance cyber threat information sharing. SentinelOne’s team of security researchers will provide […]

Kyle Robinson, principal of business development at LMI, has been named to the board of directors of the National Defense University Foundation. The U.S. Air Force veteran with three decades of military service will be part of the corporate relations committee and assist in increasing the foundation’s involvement with its public and private sector partners, the […]

Craig Herman, chief revenue officer at biometrics software provider Aware, said the company has seen an increased demand for authentication technologies from federal government customers to prevent unauthorized access to physical and digital assets. Aware said Thursday its biometric authentication offerings are being used by agencies across the three branches of the U.S. federal government […]

Jacobs has partnered with Intuitive Machines to address mission requirements at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas under a potential $3.9 billion contract the agency awarded in July 2022. The partnership aims to help center personnel engineer systems, implement scientific products and perform technical work through the Engineering, Technology and Science II program, Intuitive Machines […]

The U.S. Special Operations Command issued a request for information from companies that can provide guidance on software and technologies that can improve its information technology platform for data management, intelligence, mission planning, command and control systems. In a notice posted on SAM.gov, USSOCOM said it is looking for a platform that can integrate its […]