Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Arati Prabhakar said the agency should revert back to its core mission of preparing the country for the threats of the future, NextGov reports. She said the agency will shift its focus to cybersecurity, analysis of big data sets and the next generation of biological research. The wars in Afghanistan […] More

Altegrity has appointed Carole Yanofsky a vice president, where she will also serve as chief ethics and compliance officer with responsibility for developing compliance systems and processes across the Altegrity organization, which includes USIS and Kroll. She will also work with corporate leadership to help provide clients insight for mitigating risk, compliance and corporate governance, […] More

Beth Smith is the chief operating officer for Deloitte Federal Government Services. As a $1.5 billion practice with over 6,000 employees, Deloitte Federal provides consulting, risk advisory, and financial advisory services to every Cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government, and is among the top 20 federal contractors on the Washington Technology Top 100 list. As […] More

IBM has appointed Christina Peters chief privacy officer, where she will guide and oversee the company’s global information policy and practices that affect the company’s clients and more than 400,000 employees. The company said she will also lead a worldwide team of legal, data protection and technical professionals who address privacy and data security and […] More

Sean Sullivan is senior vice president of human resources at Science Applications International Corp., where he sets the company’s HR strategy, governance and policy. The 10-year company veteran also holds management responsibility for talent acquisition, workplace relations, workforce analysis, diversity and inclusion. He also serves as president of the SAIC Relief Foundation, a charitable organization […] More

Jim LaJeunesse is vice president of finance for the land and armaments sector for BAE Systems Inc., where he oversees all activities in finance, accounting, program control, compliance, financial planning and analysis, pricing, estimating and business management. He joined BAE in April 2009 as finance VP supporting the electronics, intelligence and support operating group. Before […] More

NJVC and Virtustream will partner to provide government customers the Virtustream xChange cloud computing marketplace to shop for cloud service providers. NJVC said the exchange is a marketplace for government, healthcare, education and financial services and the company will offer Virtustream via its Cloudcuity portal. “Virtustream xChange will give NJVC Cloudcuity users the automated ability […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s flight services unit has launched a web portal and alerting service for pilots who use the company’s service for filing flight plans, the company announced Thursday. Pilots will use the Automated Flight Service Station Pilot Web Portal to file pre-flight briefings and the new Adverse Condition Alerting Service alerts pilots to adverse weather […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has won a 10-year contract from United Power to provide advanced metering infrastructure solutions for a 10,000 meter pilot project and to implement the SAIC Smart Grid as a service offering, according to an SAIC statement. “SGS will provide the direct advantage of on-demand meter reads, as well as improved billing […] More

More than 300 government agencies and 1,500 educational institutions are customers of Amazon Web Services, Fedscoop reports. The online retail giant launched the web services business in 2006 and has ramped up its public sector offerings over the past two years, according to David Stegon’s report. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector, […] More

Boeing has updated its geospatial data management software to provide defense and intelligence users a new map, terrain and full-motion video management platform. The company said its DataMaster 5.2 program will start supporting video text-tagging and convert different geospatial and remote-sensing imagery formats. The update will also include a JPIP server that streams JPEG2000 imagery […] More

General Dynamics‘ C4 systems unit has released a National Security Agency-approved laptop computer for secured network communications, the company announced Wednesday. The company said the TACLANE MultiBook laptop is designed for government, agency and state and local law enforcement users and other related organizations. According to Chris Marzilli, president of C4 systems, users would need […] More