ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/13/2022

Science Applications International Corp. has named Jon Rucker, formerly of CACI International, as senior vice president of its U.S. Army business unit that records $1.2 billion in annual deliveries to customers. Rucker will oversee the strategy, business development and program delivery of engineering and information technology services to Army clients, the Reston, Virginia-based, information technology services company announced […]

Novetta, an advanced analytics company owned by Accenture‘s federal services business, will commercialize the products from U.S. Air Force’s software development program, Platform One, as part of a two-year agreement. The deal is expected to expand Platform One’s exposure across federal government and industry partners by enabling Novetta to resell and support the platform’s Iron Bank and […]

Google’s cloud business has secured a multiyear, $13 million contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs a platform for the development of web-based tools intended to simplify former military personnel’s access to health care services and records. Google Cloud said Wednesday VA will implement the Apigee application program programming interface management platform to further […]

Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said companies should review their security practices to identify and address gaps as the Department of Defense is finalizing the second version of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Whitworth wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that DOD’s CMMC 2.0 model has three maturity levels that […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the selection of 10 university and industry research teams for a program that seeks to develop lightweight, night vision goggles that could offer wider field of view and improved visual access across infrared bands using advances in transduction materials and planar optics. The Enhanced Night Vision in […]

Travis Steele, a senior strategic solutions architect at Red Hat, said there are three ways the Department of Defense can do to establish an automation-first culture and one is creating a framework that includes processes, tools and procedures needed for automation and can be implemented across agencies. Steele wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on […]

Strider Technologies has named H.R. McMaster, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former U.S. national security adviser, and Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant, as the founding members of its new advisory board. The two new advisers will provide Strider’s executive team with guidance on strategic planning, business development and initiatives, the Salt […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries has initiated “light off” of the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer the company is building for the U.S. Navy at a shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. HII said Wednesday the activity represents a milestone for Aegis combat system activation aboard the future USS Jack H. Lucas and marks the beginning […]

Applied Energetics has appointed Mary O’Hara, a member of its board of directors, to serve as the aerospace and defense company’s general counsel and chief legal officer. O’Hara, a nearly-three-decade private law practitioner with experience in securities, corporate and commercial law, previously worked with Applied Energetics as an outside counsel, the Tucson, Arizona-headquartered company said […]

Riverside Research was added to a National Science Foundation-led consortium that works to drive hardware security development through cross-sector partnerships. The not-for-profit organization said Wednesday its membership in the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust or CHEST Consortium allows it to support programs of the Air Force Research Laboratory, whose work spans […]