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ICF International has been awarded a nearly $30 million contact to perform technical and program support for NASA’s global change research program. ICF will assist the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Coordination Office to coordinate and assess the office’s plans and budget activity, and develop USGCRP’s web resources and applications, NASA said Wednesday. The […] More
Ray O. Johnson, a former Lockheed Martin chief technology officer and senior vice president, has joined the international advisory board of New York-based nuclear reactor system developer Terrestrial Energy. The 30-year defense industry veteran said Wednesday that he aims to help bring Terrestrial Energy’s molten salt reactor technology to the marketplace. Johnson supervised more than […] More
Michael Sheridan, formerly chief financial officer at FireEye, has joined electronic signature technology provider DocuSign as CFO and will report to the company’s Chairman and CEO Keith Krach. DocuSign said Wednesday Sheridan will succeed former CFO Mike Dinsdale, who will assume the role of chief growth officer. “[Sheridan] has a remarkable track record of building high growth companies in some […] More
Mark Malcolm, president and CEO of automotive structural metal assemblies supplier Tower International, has been appointed to the board of directors at General Dynamics. Malcolm will serve on General Dynamics’ audit committee, the company said Wednesday. “With Mark’s experience at the helm of a publicly traded manufacturing company and his financial management background, he’s an […] More
Cloudera has been recognized in two categories of Database Trends and Applications magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2015. The magazine named Cloudera the best Hadoop and big data service for the second consecutive year, Cloudera said Wednesday. “It is an honor to be recognized by DBTA readers as the best Hadoop solution and the best […] More
Fulcrum IT’s enterprise solutions division has achieved the Capability Maturity Model Integration Continuous Level 3 rating in recognition of the division’s work to adopt process improvement practices in software development. Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute granted the CMMI Continuous Level 3 appraisal after an evaluation of Fulcrum’s division in several process areas. The institute looked at […] More
Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reports that the state of cloud spending at the Department of Homeland Security is unclear amid inconsistencies between verifiable spending data and data reported to the Office of Management and Budget. Rossino wrote in an blog entry posted Tuesday that while he was able to verify $22.31 million spent on cloud computing for fiscal […] More
Forrester Research has released a new report that suggests government agencies need to integrate mobile and analytics technologies to further their digital migration, GCN reported Monday. Amanda Ziadeh writes the Forrester report recommends that agencies focus on mobile as the primary platform to connect with citizens and identify methods for sharing data with the public. […] More
The U.S. Air Force has asked industry for concepts to cool a fighter aircraft’s electronic system under a project that could be worth $24 million, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. John Keller writes the Air Force Research Laboratory released a broad agency announcement that seeks new electronics thermal management methods for aircraft from industry. Up to six […] More
A report by Intel Security (McAfee) and the Aspen Institute has outlined the cyber challenges facing North American and European technology and security professionals at critical infrastructure organizations amid recent major cyber attack incidents. The report indicated that while these professionals remain confident of their cyber defenses even as threats continue to be on the […] More
A consortium led by Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu have been awarded contracts worth up to $2.3 billion combined for information technology and communications services to the U.K.’s defense ministry. HP will collaborate with Airbus, Fujitsu and CGI under the Atlas Consortium to provide IT systems, software platforms and cloud services for U.K. defense offices and military bases under the $1.5 billion […] More
A Raytheon-commissioned global survey has found that organizations differ in their cybersecurity posture outlooks and face different challenges in terms of cyber readiness and governance. Ashok Sankar, senior director of cyber product strategy and management at Raytheon, writes the 2015 Global Megatrends in Cybersecurity study says more than half of information technology leaders from the government […] More
