Jake MacLeod, vice president of government solutions at Powerwave Technologies, will run a panel at the 2010 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), the company announced this week. The panel topic will be “Future Government Use of Commercial Wireless Networks” and will take place Monday, Nov. 1. Leaders from the government and private sector will discuss how [...]
VMware products have reached Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4, the highest globally recognized security features certification. The two virtualization and cloud-infrastructure products that received the honor are VMware vSphere 4.0 and VMware vCenter Server 4.0. The software was examined for security measures as part of the certification process, which began in 2006 [...]
In honor of its 10th anniversary, NJVC has announced the induction of its first Hall of Fame members – employees past and present, who have contributed the most to the company’s growth. The five members were celebrated at a reception put on by the company this week in Vienna, Va. “As NJVC celebrates its first [...]
The Northern Virginia Family Service has awarded High Performance Technologies, Inc. a 2010 CARE Award, recognizing it for being a family-friendly workplace. The award, which stands for Companies As Responsive Employers, has been awarded to HPTi four years in a row. Some of the company’s policies include a parking subsidy, telecommuting option and laptop-purchase program. [...]
Iridium Communication’s (Nasdaq: IRDM) deal with Thales Alenia Space, a leading European aerospace firm, for 81 communication satellites for use in the Iridium NEXT low-orbit constellation has taken flight. The launch of the first satellites is scheduled for the first quarter of 2015. “We are extremely pleased to have closed the Coface financing and to [...]
Melissa Hathaway, a leader in cybersecurity, will speak at the American National Standards Institute Caucus Luncheon in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12. Hathaway leads her own firm, Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC, and works with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has held a number of high-profile positions, including senior [...]
ManTech issued the stats it pulled together for the last quarter. Here’s the key information from the firm: “Revenues for the quarter were $657.0 million, up 28 percent from $514.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Organic growth was 11 percent for the quarter, driven primarily by recent awards for ISR, systems [...]
