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AT&T Passes 50% FirstNet Buildout Completion Mark
AT&T has completed 53 percent of buildout efforts for the nationwide public safety broadband service as of the end of the first quarter, Urgent Communications reported Thursday.
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Korn Ferry Adds Former Cybercom Leader William Mayville to Cybersecurity Practice
William Mayville Jr., former vice commander of U.S. Cyber Command and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined the cybersecurity practice of Korn Ferry.Â
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General Dynamics’ Phebe Novakovic: Columbia-Class Submarine Design Work Nears Completion
Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has said design of the U.S. Navy's Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is 97 percent complete and construction drawings are 43 percent complete, USNI News reported Wednesday.
Red Hat’s David Egts: Open Source, Hybrid Cloud Could Provide Agencies Access to Supercomputing
David Egts, chief technologist of North American public sector at Red Hat, has said federal agencies seeking to gain access to high performance computing should leverage open source and hybrid cloud platforms.
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In-Q-Tel’s Chris Darby on ‘Democratization’ of Technologies
Chris Darby, president and CEO of In-Q-Tel, said the “democratization†of satellites and other technologies had closed the gap between the U.S. and other countries in terms of capabilities, CBS News reported Wednesday.
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Amy Gilliland: People, Tech Drive General Dynamics IT Business
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics' information technology business, said Tuesday at the GDIT Emerge event that people and technology keep the business moving forward, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.
Army to Host Industry Day for ‘Enterprise IT as a Service’ Program
The U.S. Army will hold a government-industry collaboration day May 7 at Fort Belvoir in Virginia to discuss the service’s Enterprise Information Technology as a Service program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says interested stakeholders have until April 29, Monday, to register for the event, which will discuss the Army’s strategy to upgrade its enterprise network and the other transaction authority as well as feature one-on-one sessions.
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Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: Enterprise Data Cloud Can Play a Role in Agency Insight Generation
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said public sector agencies could extract "actionable" insights by using an open-source enterprise data cloud platform that is built on emerging technology such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Kathy Warden: Northrop on Track to Meet Synergy Targets as Orbital ATK Integration Continues
Northrop Grumman executives said they are seeing the benefits of the company’s acquisition of Orbital ATK, which now operates as Northrop’s innovation systems business unit, when it comes to new business opportunities and cost savings, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.