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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.
Iomaxis plans to make a $3.8 million investment to expand its operations in Fairfax County, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in a news release published Thursday the company’s expansion will result in the creation of 555 jobs in the next three years and seeks to reflect the state’s workforce pipeline, business climate, access to […] More
Fornetix and Semper Fortis Solutions have launched new extensions of an encryption key management platform and systems integration designed to secure government, commercial and military communications and data networks from cyber threats. Semper Fortis combined its systems integration capability with Fornetix’s Key Orchestration offerings under a reseller agreement, Fornetix said Wednesday. Fornetix’s Key Orchestration is a […] More
Accenture has partnered with Thales’ e-Security business, formerly Vormetric, to develop a blockchain technology-based platform designed to protect government, healthcare and financial records from potential cyber attacks. Thales integrated with Accenture’s security tool its nShield hardware security module that works to generate, store and protect digital keys designed to validate and secure transactions and messages, […] More
Alan Stern, chairman of the board of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, has said CSF supports development work and potential use of NASA’s Space Launch System for commercial spaceflight missions, Space News reported Wednesday. Jeff Foust writes Stern made the remarks in a speech Tuesday at the 20th Annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington. “There […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day via webcast on Feb. 21 to discuss the RadioBio program that aims to determine whether purposeful signaling through electromagnetic waves occurs between biological cells. “If we can prove that purposeful signaling is happening, the next step would be to discover how the process works,†Mike Fiddy, […] More
CSRA has obtained Amazon Web Services’ Managed Service Partner designation after the former completed the evaluation process for requirements in application migration and cloud infrastructure. The status seeks to authorize CSRA to automate, monitor and manage their public sector clients’ environments, CSRA said Tuesday. Larry Prior, president and CEO of CSRA, said the company works to […] More
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has said the company plans a two- to three-week interval for its Falcon 9 rocket launches once a new launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida enters service next week, Reuters reported Tuesday. Shotwell told Reuters Monday in an interview that launch pad repairs at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station […] More
Rory Welch, vice president of engineering and service delivery at Intelsat General, has said the U.S. government should work to leverage insights from the commercial space industry in an effort to facilitate innovation and keep the country’s edge in the national security space domain. Welch wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the U.S. […] More
A new report by Cisco has found that security teams at organizations investigate 56 percent of security alerts they receive on a daily basis and that 44 percent of the security threats received are left unexplored. The 2017 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study also showed that 28 percent of those investigated threats are considered legitimate, David […] More
Boeing and NanoRacks have formed an alliance to build a new commercial airlock designed to help the U.S. increase its capability to deploy small satellites, equipment and payloads from the International Space Station. The companies plan to attach the NanoRacks Airlock Module to the ISS U.S. segment in 2019, Boeing said Monday. Boeing will develop […] More
CSRA will transfer its workload to Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform under a three-year enterprise agreement between the two companies. The deal also allows CSRA to use Microsoft’s Office 365 software platform for the cloud environment, CSRA said Monday. John Dancy, chief information officer of CSRA, said the company aims to operate 70 percent of its applications […] More
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said artificial intelligence could help block cyber attacks through classification of network threats, CSO reported Friday. “An AI has supervised learning capabilities using neural networks for entity and pattern recognition for intrusion detection systems and event forensics applications,†Testoni told CSO’s John Brandon in an interview. Testoni […] More
