ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/16/2022

Lockheed Martin has provided an electric 300 kiloWatt-class laser to the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office for implementation in military weapon testing efforts. DOD and the U.S. Army plan to incorporate the system into laboratory and field tests of the service branch’s Indirect Fires Protection Capability-High Energy Laser Demonstrator, a ground-based defense against […]

Jon Love, vice president of strategic growth at Maxar Technologies, has joined other industry leaders in highlighting the growing use of 3D mapping and multi-sensor datasets in defense and intelligence applications, Via Satellite reported Thursday. Speaking at World Satellite Business Week, Love said Maxar observes a demand in 3D mapping technologies from the military to […]

William Tedeschi, a former senior scientist in the Department of Energy’s intelligence and counterintelligence office, has been named as the newest technical fellow at non-profit corporation Mitre. In a Linkedin post on Thursday, Mitre said it will lean on Tedeschi’s expertise in nuclear weapons, threat assessments and high-altitude electromagnetic pulse disturbances to provide technical guidance […]

Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite at Amazon Web Services, discussed how the federal government and industry look for ways to improve connectivity in space using cloud computing, which he said has unique capabilities ranging from artificial intelligence to data analytics. He said during a fireside chat aired by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce […]

Anduril Industries has launched a new command and control platform designed to support military operations in geographically dispersed and austere environments. Menace is an expeditionary command, control, communications and computing system that works to enable the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps commanders to plan and execute a range of missions from forward deployed locations, […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement will sponsor a security assessment of Paperless Innovations’ cloud software-as-a-service offering under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Actus is a cloud-based SaaS platform that ICE intends to use for its system designed to automate purchase card approvals, Paperless Innovations said Wednesday. Mike Tocci, president […]

Bombardier’s defense arm and U.S. subsidiary Learjet have supplied the U.S. Air Force with an additional modified Global 6000 business jet, bringing the total number of deliveries to the service branch to five so far. The Canada-based manufacturer said Thursday the handover is part of a potential $464.8 million contract it secured in June 2021 to provide […]

IBM has established strategies to participate in government and industry collaboration to help advance national cybersecurity, said Katharyn White, vice president of the company’s U.S. federal ecosystem unit.  White wrote in an article published Thursday the company supports President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity through a collaborative approach. She said IBM […]

Cloud security provider Ermetic has picked Ben McGucken, regional vice president of sales for US Federal and Latin America, to lead the company’s efforts to secure certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Ermetic has started the process to achieve a FedRAMP Authority to Operate status and has tapped engineering and advisory services […]

General Dynamics‘ information technology business was awarded its 10th Amazon Web Services competency, provider and partner designation after obtaining an AWS level 1 managed security service provider competency. General Dynamics Information Technology is the first federal systems integrator to secure this designation in all six AWS specialized categories for managed security services, including data privacy […]