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    Shift5 Board Adds Former SOCOM Commander Richard Clarke to Board of Directors

    Richard Clarke, a retired four-star general who served the U.S. Army for nearly 40 years, has joined the board of directors of Rosslyn, Virginia-based technology company Shift5. The company said Tuesday Clarke left the service in August 2022 as the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Previously, he served as the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s director […] More

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    Riverside Research Assembles Team to Support DARPA’s Computing Software Security Initiative

    Riverside Research has partnered with two companies and one university to develop technology under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at disrupting cyber attackers’ exploitation mechanism in computing platforms. The nonprofit scientific research organization on Monday unveiled High Peaks Cyber, BedRock Systems and Boston University as teammates on the Hardening Development Toolchains Against […] More

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    Edgar Sevilla Joins DTC Government Solutions as Chief Software Architect

    Edgar Sevilla, former cybersecurity and cyber operations director at Dark Wolf Solutions, was named chief software architect at Domo Tactical Communications‘ government solutions business. He will build on his his more than 25 years of experience in cyber operations, software development, systems integration and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, DTC said Monday. Sevilla previously worked for […] More

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    Lockheed VP Chris Stone Promoted to Chief Supply Chain Officer Role

    Chris Stone has been elevated to the dual role of vice president and chief supply chain officer at Lockheed Martin, according to his LinkedIn post published Friday. Prior to his promotion, he worked as the company’s vice president of supply chain for enterprise operations. He joined Lockheed in January 2021 after acting as VP of supply chain […] More

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    Authentication Company Aware to Demo Biometric Tech at Future Digital Finance Conference; Craig Herman Quoted

    Global authentication company Aware will showcase its biometrics-based security mechanism offerings at the 2023 Future Digital Finance Conference in Austin, Texas. The company said Thursday it will demonstrate its mobile biometric authentication framework called Knomi and its software-as-a-service authentication platform dubbed AwareID at the event, which will take place from March 6 to 7 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. “Financial […] More

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    Boeing-Built Apache Helicopter Hits 5M Flight Hours

    Boeing’s AH-64 Apache attack aircraft has reached the mark of five million flight hours since the helicopter was fielded in 1984. The company said Thursday 1.3 million hours were achieved during combat and the milestone equates to flying nonstop for more than 208,333 days or 570 years and nine months. Apache was built in Mesa, Arizona, […] More

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    NGA Veteran David Gauthier Appointed GXO Chief Strategy Officer

    David Gauthier, a former director of commercial operations at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been named chief strategy officer at space-focused consulting company GXO. He will be responsible for helping clients navigate the space technology market and explore approaches to bring their capabilities to the national security sector, GXO said Wednesday. Gauthier previously spent 16 years […] More

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    eVigilant Lands Position on $675M Army Contract for Electronic Security Support

    eVigilant will compete for tasks to conduct electronic security systems support for government organizations under a potential seven-year, $675 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Services under the ESS VII indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity multiple award task order will cover personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and nonpersonal support, the Reston, Virginia-based security services provider […] More

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    Lockheed’s Investment Arm Backs Aircraft Motor Manufacturer H3X; Chris Moran Quoted

    The venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin has invested in technology company H3X Technologies to help the latter augment its Colorado headquarters facility as well as accelerate the development of its integrated motor drives. H3X has now raised a total of $9 million with the latest funding from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the Denver-based aircraft motor manufacturer said Tuesday. […] More

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    Austin Pugh Named VP of Government Business Development at Aautonomy Tech Developer Merlin

    Austin Pugh, former public sector head at a Xerox company, has been appointed as the first vice president of government business development at autonomy system developer Merlin. He will be responsible for leading Merlin’s expansion activities into the defense and broader public sector markets in both domestic and global scales, the Boston, Massachusetts-based flight technology company said […] More

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    Business Mission Edge Books Army HR IT Support Task Order

    A Business Integra Technology Services–OSC Edge joint venture has received a potential four-year task order to help the U.S. Army Human Resources Command maintain information technology networks, systems and applications. The order is the second award for Business Mission Edge under the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Services procurement vehicle, BME said Monday. Bethesda, Maryland-based BME […] More

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    Pro2Serve Books $50M DOE Task Order for Environmental Management Office Support

    Professional Project Services has received a potential five-year, $50 million task order from the Department of Energy to continue the company’s technical aid for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management site in Tennessee. Work will involve providing technical and oversight support for the site’s planning and management efforts, DOE said Thursday. Pro2Serve will deliver support in various […] More