Chris Valentino, chief strategy officer at Peraton, said the Department of Defense should work with industry to drive experimentation, invest in new technologies and rapidly deploy capabilities to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. He wrote in an article published Friday on the Professional Services Council website that DOD should recognize the potential […] More

Chris Valentino, vice president of global cyber solutions at Northrop Grumman’s mission systems business, said the U.S. Army must integrate cyber technologies into traditional, physical missions, C4ISRNet reported Tuesday.

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DB Networks has graduated from Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC’s joint Cync incubator program for startup businesses. Northrop said Thursday that the continuous monitoring service provider is the fifth cyber startup to complete the Cync program. Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC formed the program with the goal of helping cyber, data sciences, big data and secure mobility […] More

Peraton will relocate its West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center from its current location in West Lafayette, Indiana, to a new space at the Purdue Applied Research Institute to expand research in support of national security missions. Chris Valentino, chief innovation officer at Peraton, heads the center, which operates under the Peraton Strategic Innovation Group to carry out applied research and development in areas such as cyber, quantum technologies, network virtualization and critical infrastructure protection, Peraton said Monday.

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Peraton's applied research arm will develop and demonstrate a new piece of technology designed to enable 5G dynamic spectrum sharing at the tactical edge to support military operations. The Flexible Spectrum Harvesting and Adaptive Reuse Enhancement tool will demonstrate bidirectional spectrum sharing between 5G radio access networks and military radars in the 3.1 to 3.55 GHz band, Peraton said Thursday.

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Peraton’s applied research arm will enhance a company-built intrusion detection/intrusion prevention system for possible integration and flight testing on the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle. The security and technology company said Wednesday Peraton Labs will engineer, develop, produce, test and evaluate its 1553 Bus Defender offering under a $9.2 million contract to prevent […] More

Peraton has aligned the company around four business sectors and appointed new executives to its leadership team, following its $3.4 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman's integrated mission support and IT solutions business, the company reported on Thursday. "As Peraton expands we will be faced with a complex range of new opportunities and challenges across our functions and businesses,” said Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient. 

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Northrop Grumman is continuing work to support the Unified Platform designed to handle the U.S. Cyber Command’s operations and provide standardized big data and cybersecurity tools across defense components, Fifth Domain reported Saturday.

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Australia-based iWebgate and Baltimore-headquartered Light Point Security have completed Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC Speed Tomorrow‘s global cyber startup initiative. The Cync program will work introduce iWebgate’s and Light Point Security’s new cyber offerings into the federal marketplace, Northrop said Monday. Chris Valentino, program director for cyber and intelligence mission solutions at Northrop, said the goal of the program is to […] More

William Mertz has joined Peraton as senior vice president and chief procurement officer. Effective immediately, Mertz will assume leadership of Peraton’s procurement arm, where he will steer the organization’s procurement strategy and manage a variety of other procurement functions, the Reston, Virginia- headquartered company announced on Monday.

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Northrop Grumman received a two-year, $24M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and incorporate technical capabilties into a unified platform designed to support U.S. Cyber Command operations.

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