Asset intelligence and cybersecurity company Armis has acquired for $150 million Silk Security, the developer of Silk Platform, which works to provide cyber risk prioritization and remediation. Armis said Wednesday that following the acquisition, Silk Platform will be integrated into its own artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability prioritization and remediation product called Armis Centrix.

Cyber experts, government leaders and industry visionaries will speak about the dynamic and evolving role of cyber in the public sector at the Potomac Officers Club's 2024 Cyber Summit. Register now!

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Organizations will have to augment their approaches to network traffic monitoring when they implement Transport Layer Security 1.3, according to Scott Aken, the CEO of software company Axellio. Aken explains in an opinion column published Tuesday on Security Magazine that TLS 1.3 "significantly enhances" data encryption but in so doing imposes limits on data stream decryption, making network security monitoring more difficult and potentially obscuring malware and traffic by threat actors.

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Venture capital financing company In-Q-Tel made an investment in Cloudburst Technologies during the cyber threat intelligence provider's latest venture funding round. Cloudburst said Monday that the investment will make it possible for the company to support various U.S. government agencies.

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Mike Harper, a government contracts pricing professional, has taken on the role of vice president of pricing and estimating at J&J Worldwide Services, a provider of preventative maintenance support services to U.S. federal government and civilian agency customers. He announced his promotion in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.

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Yates Construction has secured a potential $148.4 million contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast to build an engine assembly facility in Texas that will house rotary wing component rebuild and maintenance activities. The contract covers design, bid and construction services for the Powertrain Engines Assembly Facility at Corpus Christi Army Depot located at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas.

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Hank Jackson, formerly an executive technology adviser at Edgewater Federal Solutions since 2021, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Frederick, Maryland-based company. In a statement Tuesday, company CEO Dave Yockman, said, “[Jackson’s] ability to manage contracts, develop and forge relationships with key stakeholders, and drive exponential business growth make him an excellent choice to lead our client services and talent acquisition teams.”

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Carahsoft Technology will start distributing a Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System data quality product to the public sector. The company said Tuesday it will market Mathematica and NewWave’s Imersis offering through its reseller partners and the National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint contract.

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Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Vote for Levy as your favorite 2024 Wash100 winner at Wash100.com. 

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Matt Jones, president and CEO of Sigma Defense Systems, explored two of the three major questions facing the U.S. military regarding its Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. In an article published Tuesday in Government Technology Insider, Jones first discussed the role of the sensor fusion concept and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the edge in generating actionable insights from data to support warfighters on the battlefield.

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Rancher Government Solutions has entered into a strategic alliance and reseller agreement with the defense solutions division of Curtiss-Wright with the aim of bringing Kubernetes and container management technologies to the tactical edge. The two companies said Wednesday that under the partnership, the Harvester hyper-converged infrastructure and the Rancher Multi Cluster Manager will be hosted on PacStar 400-Series tactical communications products.

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Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. and former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Bob Ashley has joined artificial intelligence firm Primer Technologies as an adviser. Ashley brings to his new role over three decades of military service, which saw him exercise command responsibilities through six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and take on leadership roles at various organizations, including the U.S. Army Joint Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command, Primer said Tuesday.

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