U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a grant to UL to help mitigate security risks for cybersecurity testing of the Internet of Things (IoT) and design gateways for industrial control system (ICS) applications. The DARPA grant will enable UL to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that re...
Weekly Roundup May 8 – May 12 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson It™s been nearly a decade since Satoshi Nakamoto first dreamt up the core component of the technology known as blockchain “ the decentralized, digital currency Bitcoin has evolved i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 3, 2017 ” Altamira Technologies has participated in a leadership conference hosted by The Women™s Center in April that served to facilitate discussions, networking and career development for female leaders in the public and private sectors, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday speakers...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A division of Vencore will perform research and development work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a $10.3 million contract for the Dispersed Computing program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Vencore Labs will produce software platforms that work to build on network and ap...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 27, 2017 ” Vencore‘s research division will conduct research focused on cyber defenses against distributed denial-of-service attacks in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under contracts worth $17.7 million combined, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contra...
Michael Atcheson, formerly program director of the international business unit at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems sector, has been named president of command and control technologies group at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). He succeeds Richard Burt, the group™s acting president who will continue to serve...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 28, 2017 ” Ensco has added Steven Bratt, most recently chief technology officer and president for standards development at the international organization GS1, as a member of the company’s board of directors, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Ensco said Thursday Bratt is co-founder of the World Wide Web Fo...
Reginald Brothers, former undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate, has joined security advisory services firm Chertoff Group as a principal. The company said Monday he will work with clients to help them create growth strategies, explore market platform...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Vencore‘s research arm a 17-month, $2.5 million contract to help update airborne systems and networks under a program that seeks to ensure uninterrupted communications, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Vencore Labs will ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 6, 2017 ” A unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has unveiled a demonstration chip that will work to accelerate optical computation processes in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency mesoscale technology program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. IEEE reported Monday Hewl...
