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  • Deloitte: Federal CIOs Poised for Lead Roles in Integration, IT Talent Mgmt at Agencies
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    Deloitte: Federal CIOs Poised for Lead Roles in Integration, IT Talent Mgmt at Agencies

    Deloitte reports that the role of the chief information officer at federal agencies may extend to business-IT integration and talent management as the government undertakes technology initiatives, FedScoop reported Monday. Billy Mitchell writes that these future agencywide initiatives will call on federal CIOs to manage potential organizational, operational and other changes over the next 18 to 24 months. “Many technology […] More

  • CenturyLink Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments
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    CenturyLink Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments

    CenturyLink has inked an agreement with NEXTDC to outsource the company’s data center services to regional and multinational companies in Australia. CenturyLink is set to roll out network, managed hosting, colocation and cloud services in the country in late 2015, CenturyLink said Monday. Gery Messer, managing director for Asia Pacific at CenturyLink, said the company’s extension […] More

  • General Dynamics Completes Development, Tests on NASA Ground Segment; Chris Marzilli Comments
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    General Dynamics Completes Development, Tests on NASA Ground Segment; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics has completed development, initial integration work and tests of the bearer network and basic ground terminal hardware and software for Increment A3 of NASA‘s Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment program. The company said Monday it performed work at its SGSS development and test laboratory in Arizona, which provides simulations of daily operations at a live NASA Space Network ground […] More

  • Dave Pringle: Lockheed-Built UAS to Help with Search and Rescue Missions
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    Dave Pringle: Lockheed-Built UAS to Help with Search and Rescue Missions

    Lockheed Martin, Loen Engineering and Project Lifesaver International have partnered to help first responders utilize technologies to locate wandering or lost people with cognitive disorders. The alliance’s goal is to integrate a Loen antenna system and a Project Lifesaver tracking device with Lockheed’s Indago unmanned aerial system for search and rescue of special needs persons […] More

  • HP’s Al Kinney: 24/7 Vigilance Needed to Fight Cyber Threats
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    HP’s Al Kinney: 24/7 Vigilance Needed to Fight Cyber Threats

    Al Kinney, head of the U.S. public sector at Hewlett-Packard‘s enterprise security services business, has said he believes organizations must learn how to think like a cyber criminal in order to defeat one, Lisa Mooijman of ICT Magazine reported Monday. He told ICT Magazine that government agencies and companies should adopt a structural cybersecurity platform […] More

  • Steve Wadey Assumes CEO Role at QinetiQ
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    Steve Wadey Assumes CEO Role at QinetiQ

    Steve Wadey, formerly managing director of MBDA’s U.K. business, has taken on his new role as CEO at QinetiQ. Wadey, whose appointment was announced in January 2015, is tasked to steer QinetiQ’s organic-plus growth strategy and lead more than 5,000 employees in the U.K., U.S., Belgium and Australia, QinetiQ said Monday. “I am relishing my new […] More

  • Sarah Allen: Veteran Talent, Expertise Key to Leidos Mission
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    Sarah Allen: Veteran Talent, Expertise Key to Leidos Mission

    Sarah Allen, chief human resources officer at Leidos, said the company’s veteran employees are central to its mission to provide science and technology support to the government, health and engineering sectors. “The talent and expertise our veterans bring to the important work we do at Leidos every day plays an integral role to our company’s success,” Allen said Monday. […] More

  • MCPON Michael Stevens, HII CEO Mike Petters to Attend DDG 113 Christening
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    MCPON Michael Stevens, HII CEO Mike Petters to Attend DDG 113 Christening

    Master Chief Petty Officer Michael Stevens of the U.S. Navy will be the keynote speaker at Ingalls Shipbuilding’s christening of the John Finn (DDG 113) this weekend. The ceremony for the Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer will be held in Pascagoula, Mississippi, with Mike Petters, president and CEO of Ingalls parent company Huntington Ingalls Industries, in […] More

  • Women in Technology Org Recognizes 2015 Leadership Awardees; Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Mentoring
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    Women in Technology Org Recognizes 2015 Leadership Awardees; Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Mentoring

    The nonprofit organization Women in Technology has selected a group of executives from the public and private sectors to receive its 2015 Leadership Awards, which recognize female executives for their leadership roles in the industry. WIT said Thursday it honored the recipients of the 16th annual Women in Technology during a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Va. […] More

  • ISACA Certification Program to Use TCS Cyber Training Curriculum; Drew Morin Comments
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    ISACA Certification Program to Use TCS Cyber Training Curriculum; Drew Morin Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has entered into a three-year licensing agreement for ISACA to use the TCS Art of Exploitation cybersecurity training curriculum and PerformanScore tool for the nonprofit’s Cybersecurity Nexus certification program. The company said Monday ISACA’s CSX program will leverage the TCS technology to deliver a combination of skills-based training and performance-based exams. TCS noted that CSX trainers can use PerformanScore to provide […] More

  • Survey: Cyber Investments Depend on More Than ROI, TCO
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    Survey: Cyber Investments Depend on More Than ROI, TCO

    A survey commissioned by Lockheed Martin indicates that businesses are looking toward other metrics beyond return on investment and total cost of ownership when making investment decisions on cybersecurity technologies. The company said Monday respondents to the “Risk & Innovation in Cybersecurity Investments” survey identified cost, performance and vendor support as chief considerations for investing. “As cyber threats […] More

  • Digital Reasoning Offers eComms Monitoring Product for Financial Institutions
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    Digital Reasoning Offers eComms Monitoring Product for Financial Institutions

    Digital Reasoning has unveiled machine learning technology that seeks to help financial services institutions monitor employee communications for potential insider threats. The company said Friday Synthesys 3.10 works to provide insights on behavioral risks through human language data analysis and cognitive computing to detect indicators of employee misconduct such as market manipulation or collusive trading. “Electronic communication is the leading indicator […] More