Lockheed Invests in Cyber Firm RunSafe Security Through Second Series A Funding Round
RunSafe Security has raised $3.5M in a new round of Series A financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm and NextGen Venture Partners.
Jane Edwards
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
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in Contract Awards, NewsNASA Seeks Feedback on Draft Requirements for Advanced Enterprise Global IT Solutions Contract
NASA has asked industry for comments on its proposed requirements as it develops a solicitation for the acquisition of telecommunications systems and services in support of the mission of the agency’s office of the chief information officer. A request for information posted Tuesday says NASA is developing a solicitation for the Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract, which seeks to increase the use of network automation and automated segmentation, improve mission management and achieve cost-effective and flexible communications services.
ViON’s Rob Davies: IaaS Could Help Agencies Transition to Modern, Cloud-Centric Architecture
Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a previous Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that adopting an infrastructure-as-a-service model could help federal agencies upgrade to a flexible and secure infrastructure and meet modernization requirements.
NASA Announces 17 Developmental Testing Partners for Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge
Seventeen companies have signed five-year Space Act Agreements with NASA to take part in developmental testing activities as part of the agency’s Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. NASA said Wednesday the challenge seeks to test the readiness and capabilities of vehicles that could transform mobility in densely populated areas.
Lockheed Invests in In-Package Optical Interconnect Developer Ayar Labs
Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Ayar Labs to help the latter advance the commercialization of its monolithic in-package optical input/output platform.
Tripwire’s Maurice Uenuma: CMMC Reflects DoD’s Seriousness to Address Supply Chain Cyber Weaknesses
The Department of Defense introduced the final version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in late January and Maurice Uenuma, vice president of federal at Tripwire, said CMMC is a key step to securing DoD’s supply chain, Signal Magazine reported Sunday. The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Click here to register for the event.
Report: SpaceX Projects 38 Florida Launches This Year
An environmental assessment from the Federal Aviation Administration projects a surge in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches in Florida in the next few years, SpaceNews reported Thursday. SpaceX plans to perform 38 launches from two launch complexes in Florida this year, including 30 missions from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.Â
Maximus’ Tom Romeo: Automation, Contract Consolidation Among 2020 Federal Tech Trends
Tom Romeo, general manager of Maximus’ federal services segment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Thursday there are three technology trends to watch in the federal government space this year and one is the adoption of new technologies to transform the way citizens apply and receive health care benefits.
Splunk’s Frank Dimina: DoD Should Start With Common Data Platform for Joint All-Domain C2 Capability
Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should leverage a common data platform that is scalable and can handle large amounts of data from across military branches to achieve the joint all-domain command and control capability.
Raytheon, IronNet Form Critical Infrastructure Cyber Defense Partnership; John DeSimone Quoted
Raytheon and IronNet Cybersecurity have teamed up to develop cyber platforms that could be used to defend operational and information technology systems against threat actors.
Guidehouse’s Vasil Jaiani on Strategies Agencies Should Take to Become Data-Driven Organizations
Vasil Jaiani, data management SME at Guidehouse, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that public sector agencies should implement foundational data strategies that could help them fully leverage data as a strategic asset and one is finding a data leader.
AWS, CircleCI Forge Cloud Application Modernization Partnership
CircleCI, a San Francisco-based continuous integration and delivery platforms provider, and Amazon Web Services teamed up to help federal agencies using the AWS GovCloud platform advance the modernization of their application development workflows, TechCrunch reported Tuesday.