Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that organizations should prioritize the monitoring of user perimeters through a zero-trust approach. “With people as the new perimeter, zero trust is a non-negotiable first step for securing newly distributed agency workforces and ensuring users are who they say they are,” Berg wrote in a guest piece for FedScoop.

NASA has unveiled recent updates to its Lockheed Martin-designed X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology jet and said that construction of the Mach 1.4-speed aircraft is halfway complete, Aviation International News reported Monday.

KBR has teamed up with interplanetary architecture design company XArc to support the latter’s partnership with SpaceX and the U.S. Transportation Command to assess the potential of space-based cargo delivery.

Shurronne Young Davis, senior director of enterprise security at Perspecta, said the Defense Information Systems Agency must implement a framework that integrates automation, innovation, engineering and cyber elements for its new information technology modernization program.

The Department of Defense has indefinitely postponed a final determination to let the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter aircraft move into the full production phase due to technical and pandemic challenges that have affected combat simulation test preparations, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Ashok Sankar, director of marketing and strategy for public sector and education at Splunk, has said that Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized cloud tools are vital to helping agencies accelerate modernization, FedScoop reported Thursday.

San Antonio, Texas-based market research firm Frost & Sullivan has identified Booz Allen Hamilton as the largest single market shareholder in the American managed and professional security services sector for the third year in a row.

Aaron Burciaga, vice president of analytics and artificial intelligence at ECS, has said that combining the technical aspects of data science with the humanistic elements of customer experience will help organizations gain financial opportunities.

Eric Frahm, a program manager at the Defense Innovation Unit, has said modern technology could help the U.S. Air Force to address learning, data and scalability limitations in the service branch's Joint Immersive Training System, GCN reported Wednesday.

Cobham's advanced electronic solutions business has received a $48M contract to provide Application Specific Integrated Circuit components and product support to an unnamed customer for medical imaging applications.

John Kahan, vice president and chief data analytics officer at Microsoft, has said the Federal Communications Commission must build on a recently passed internet access visualization law to fund areas in need of broadband services.

Nino DiCosmo, president of L3Harris Technologies’ public safety and professional communications division, has said the U.S. must build on efforts to integrate the First Responder Network Authority to innovate emergency communications.

The U.S. Navy plans to issue a request for proposals in January to help field a next-generation lightweight torpedo concept as part of the service’s compact rapid attack weapon program, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday.

ST Engineering North America's VT Halter Marine subsidiary has partnered with Gibbs & Cox to develop a concept for the U.S. Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface Vessel as part of a design analysis contract that will run through August 2021.

Kevin Martin, chief information officer at Cadence Aerospace, has been appointed to serve in an additional role as CEO of the engines systems business starting Jan. 1, 2021.