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New analysis from Research and Markets has forecast a 4.52 percent year-over-year growth for the $102 billion C4ISR market from 2014 to 2020. The market report singled out the electro-optics subsector fueling demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment in the defense, aerospace and homeland security segments, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Electro-optics is used […] More
Mike Rogers, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has started hosting this week a new nationally syndicated radio show available through Cumulus‘ Westwood One distribution platform three times every weekday. Westwood One said Nov. 6 that Rogers’ segment, called Something to Think About, will address relevant national issues as well as smaller stories that demonstrate “American exceptionalism.” “From the […] More
The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems has unveiled a new security analysis product that is designed to help companies protect their critical assets through social media and open source data analyses. The analysis tool is designed to monitor data leaks, intellectual property infringement issues, insider threats, social engineering attempts and smear campaigns, BAE Systems Inc. said Monday. Peder Jungck, […] More
Wayne Lucernoni, president of Harris information technology services, has indicated that the business unit is working to establish its presence in the market beyond the company’s telecommunications brand, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes that Lucernoni pointed to current campaigns in the healthcare and intelligence sectors and efforts to streamline bidding for future projects. Lucernoni said Harris’ IT services unit aims to focus on […] More
Nadia Short serves as vice president and general manager for the cyber and intelligence solutions division within General Dynamics‘ advanced information systems business. The 18-year company veteran leads an organization that works to deliver cybersecurity, intelligence, analysis, network exploitation, digital forensics and incident response technologies in the government and commercial sectors. She has also served […] More
The global market for C4ISR – short for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — is forecast to become a $133 billion industry by 2020, new research from ReportsnReports says. The market analysts said Monday that it expects the segment, currently valued at $102 billion, to have a compound annual growth rate of 4.52 percent […] More
A.J. Clark, president of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, has outlined what he sees as benefits of geospatial big data to different commercial markets and the federal government. Clark wrote in a Defense Systems op-ed posted Monday that agencies can use commercial data to monitor trends and patterns instead of through their own sensors. He cited the geospatial imagery DigitalGlobe provides to the National Geospatial-Intelligence […] More
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will work as a senior consultant with Hazelwood Street Consultants and advise clients at principal and Senior Executive Service levels. The consultancy firm said Thursday Hughes will support the delivery of intelligence analytics and response services for incidents such as kidnapping for ransom, extortion and […] More
Joe Nicholas serves as vice president and general manager of the intelligence business organization at Parsons Corp. He spent 26 years at Northrop Grumman, where he most recently directed a signal intelligence systems unit within the company’s information systems subsidiary. Nicholas has also managed national security support work for the U.S. Defense Department, National Intelligence […] More
Keith Salisbury serves as area director for U.S. federal sales at Silicon Valley-based cloud computing and big data analytics software maker Pivotal. Salisbury is a 13-year veteran of EMC, where he more recently led that company’s business with defense and intelligence agencies and oversaw a team of more than 1,300 people around the world, with […] More
John Toomer serves as the director for intelligence, information and cyber systems within Boeing‘s space, intelligence and missile defense, national security and space group in government operations where he is responsible for supporting government customer engagement and corporate public policy development. Prior to Boeing, Toomer served for 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as […] More
The Intelligence Community LLC has sought the help of the crowd through the firm’s new marketplace for freelancers to promote their ideas in the national security and intelligence arenas. Between October 27th and December 5th, interested individuals and companies will have the opportunity to back these ideas through the open-funding platform IndieGoGo. In this two-part conversation with ExecutiveBiz, CEO Graham Plaster discusses […] More
