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Loren DeJonge Schulman, formerly senior adviser to National Security Adviser Susan Rice, has been appointed as a Leon E. Panetta senior fellow and deputy director of studies of the Center for a New American Security. Schulman will oversee the center’s effort to produce policy research and develop her own national security and defense strategy and reform […] More
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that forecasts the analytics-as-a-service market to grow 40.3 percent year-over-year to $23.03 billion by 2020 from $4.23 billion in 2015, driven by low total cost of ownership and scalability. The report notes a growing adoption of analytics-as-a-service among large, small and medium businesses worldwide due to the increase in […] More
Wes Anderson serves as vice president of worldwide public sector services at Microsoft and leads a team that offers information technology services to U.S. and international government agencies. Anderson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, previously held the VP title for U.S. public sector services at Microsoft and also created and led the […] More
Boeing received initial on-orbit signals from its Wideband Global SATCOM 7 satellite following the spacecraft’s Wednesday launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company said Thursday it built WGS-7 to deliver 17 percent more communications bandwidth capacity to the U.S. military and allied forces. Dan Hart, vice president of Boeing’s government space […] More
Harris Corp. and information and communications technology provider CPqD have been selected to assist the Brazilian air force in monitoring Brazil’s airspace control system equipment. Network operations personnel will use the two companies’ technologies to keep track of surveillance, navigation and communications systems, as well as detect issues across the South American country’s ATC network, Harris said Monday. Under the […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking public comment on its draft guide for securing medical and patient information on mobile devices. NIST said Thursday the “Securing Electronic Records on Mobile Devices” document is the first in a series of publications providing guidance on the use of open source, standards-based or commercially available […] More
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has observed espionage methods being used in cyberspace are somewhat similar to tactics that spies use in the physical world, Defense Systems reported Thursday. He told Defense Systems in an interview that many hacking groups target the private sector and he believes the U.S. should […] More
CACI International has received a task order from the U.S. Army to assist the service branch in efforts to combat improvised explosive devices. The company will perform rapid response technical forensics and exploitation services under the contract, CACI said Monday. “With this award to continue our support for the Army’s technical forensics and exploitation mission, we […] More
Google will collaborate with NASA and multiple technology companies to develop new tools to monitor commercial unmanned aerial system operations in U.S. airspace, Bloomberg reported Friday. Alan Levin writes Google, Amazon, Harris Corp. and Verizon are among the companies that have agreed to help the agency build a UAS traffic management infrastructure. More than 100 other private […] More
BAE Systems Plc seeks to place a bid for Germany’s planned combat ship contract, Big News Network reported Saturday. The company plans to modify its British Royal Navy Type 26 frigate in order to conform to Germany’s naval ship standards, according to the report. The German Defense Ministry is set to ask industry sources to […] More
A Black Hat survey of information technology security professionals found that IT spending priorities and security tasks at enterprises do not match or keep pace with current threats in the cybersecurity environment, GCN reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes that the 2015 Black Hat Conference attendee survey indicates that the disconnect is due to existing application flaws […] More
BAE Systems and Babcock International want to join a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries–Kawasaki Heavy Industries alliance in pursuit of a $50 billion contract to build submarines for the Australian military, Defense World reported Friday. The two British defense contractors maintain operations in Australia. Defense World quoted a Japanese defense official as saying Mitsubishi seeks information on […] More
