General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit has announced new updates to a security analytics platform designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate any malicious activity on computer networks. XPS Collector works to automatically correlate threat intelligence with network metadata to reduce the time it takes for security analysts to find a threat and take action against it, […] More

Lauren Lyons, former executive at Blue Origin and SpaceX, was appointed as chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace where she will be responsible for driving efforts in scaling production and operations to support company growth. The new COO will focus on moving Firefly toward a production environment from its research and development setting to ensure […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its support for the Department of Defense’s new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification to mitigate risks from its supply chain, the branch stated in February.

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Biff Lyons oversees the national security division of Parsons Corp.’s government services segment in his senior vice president role at the Pasadena, Calif.-headquartered engineering contractor. Lyons joined Parsons in 2011 upon that company’s acquisition of SPARTA, where he held a 13-year career in roles such as VP and operations manager of advanced systems technology operation, as well […] More

Biff Lyons serves as senior vice president and manager of Parsons Government Services‘ more than $425 million national security and defense division. He elevated to his position in October 2012 as part of a series of moves in the leadership team (click over to GovCon Wire for more on these appointments). Lyons first joined Parsons […] More

Noblis, a science, technology and strategy services provider to the federal government, announced that its corporate venture arm, Noblis Ventures, has made an investment in Sedaro, a cloud software company that develops a digital engineering platform. “Sedaro's digital simulation tools enable high-technology readiness on complex physical system designs significantly faster than traditional approaches through unified modeling, data fusion and automation pipelines,” said Mile Corrigan, Noblis president and CEO and a Wash100 awardee, through a press release issued Tuesday.

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Emerging defense, security, and warfare trends have changed the government contracting landscape. Efforts that were previously focused on securing the mainland and fighting off enemy threats now extend to modernizing warfare equipment and mobility technology, integrating digital solutions into existing processes, expanding healthcare services to civilians and military personnel, exploring the aerospace realm for advanced […] More

AT&T received the 2023 Corporate Partner of the Year recognition for supporting the Naval Postgraduate School’s education, research and applied technology requirements. The award comes three years after NPS entered into an agreement with AT&T to research and develop 5G at Sea and edge computing-based maritime platforms to support defense, national security, shipping and other […] More

A Sigma Defense company has received a U.S. Navy task order to migrate the Naval Air Systems Command’s integrated surveillance software to a DevSecOps cloud environment. Solute will be responsible for facilitating NAVAIR’s Minotaur Family of Services DevSecOps under the Digital Integration Support Cell award, Sigma Defense said Wednesday. The Black Pearl Party Barge common […] More

Sigma Defense has purchased San Diego-based software development and systems engineering company Solute in a strategy to build a comprehensive portfolio of technology and service offerings for the Department of Defense. Solute CEO John Lyons will continue to manage operations of the acquired business, while the combined entity will work to help customers implement software-based […] More

The Center for a New American Security has formed a task force to study how the U.S. government can address national security risks from artificial intelligence. CNAS said Thursday Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, will co-chair the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security alongside Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School […] More