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Fabian Plath, vice president of business development and sales at Tyto Athene, will serve his third year as a member of the board at AFCEA Belvoir and as the chapter’s chair of strategic initiatives. Plath will also begin his second year on AFCEA International’s Small Business Committee. 

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB) has tapped Scantron to develop, deliver, score and complete psychometric analysis for CMMC-AB exams. “Our partnership with Scantron, a world-renowned assessment provider, is a critical component of the CMMC-AB Training and Certification Program,” said Ben Tchoubineh, director of CMMC-AB board and chair of the Training Committee. 

Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics’ information technology business and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said GDIT looks forward to continuing its partnership with the General Services Administration, Department of Defense and the Defense Information Systems Agency through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract as part of efforts to meet the goals stated in DoD’s Cloud Strategy.

BlackBerry has integrated the AtHoc critical event management technology with Microsoft's communication and collaboration platform to support the virtual workforce. "This new capability to manage the incident response process through Teams will streamline communications and give greater visibility over the recovery progress of an unfolding event,” said David Wiseman, vice president of secure communications at BlackBerry.

Cubic combined into a single business structure its mission solutions and global defense segments in August and Mike Knowles, president of the newly formed Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions segment, said he expects the consolidated defense business to improve operational efficiency and offer more integrated platforms to customers, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that there are five mindsets that could serve as keys to success for champions of technological innovation in the federal government.

Teresa Shea, vice president of cyber offensive and defensive experts at Raytheon Technologies, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the government and industry should collaborate to protect the defense industrial base from cyber threat actors and strengthen the country’s cyber resiliency.

Charles River Analytics has secured funds from the U.S. Army to create user interfaces designed to help tactical commanders process and visualize battlespace information from multiple data sources.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, wrote in an article published Friday on FedScoop about how federal agencies can develop and implement Agile principles to improve their ratings on the Federal Information Security Modernization Act scorecard.

Scott Weddle, director of quality assurance at HighPoint Global, wrote in a GCN article published Monday that government agencies can improve citizen experience by allotting resources and time to quality assurance.

Chicago-based HAAS Alert is working with the Department of Homeland Security to develop and implement a technology that allows emergency response vehicles to digitally transmit real-time alerts.

Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary published Wednesday that government agencies should reassess how they operate and advance a change in culture in order to foster innovation.

Intel aims to develop architectures that will use specialized applications and hardware components to address computing gaps at a rapid pace.

General Dynamics completed its acquisition of CSRA in April 2018 and Yogesh Khanna, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at General Dynamics’ information technology business, said the merger brings a culture of collaboration across GDIT, Federal Times reported Friday.

Microsoft has unveiled several cloud-based platforms designed to help federal, local and state government agencies implement their information technology modernization efforts and improve the delivery of citizen services.