Neil Thurgood, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined BlueHalo’s board of advisers, where he will support company expansion in the defense and national security industry. According to CEO Jonathan Moneymaker, Thurgood’s leadership and experience in rapid development will benefit capability development, BlueHalo said. A past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, Thurgood served for an […]
Allan Friedman, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency senior adviser, said that efforts are underway to devise a government-wide approach to open-source software, which is composed of publicly accessible and usable code. During a keynote speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, he explained that the Office of the National Cyber Director […]
The Department of the Interior has awarded Everlaw a five-year, $10.6 million task order to modernize data ingestion and Freedom of Information Act request processing. Through the contract, the agency aims to enhance its response to document production requests. The Oakland, California-based software developer is tasked with providing DOI with artificial intelligence-powered electronic discovery, workflow […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane has awarded ManTech International a five-year, $57 million task order to support U.S. Special Operations Command with expeditionary weapon capabilities. ManTech won the task order under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle. SOCOM will receive advanced integrated weapon systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities […]
Rob Main, a former North Carolina chief risk official, said in a recent interview that chief information security officers have become more important amid rising cyber threats to the government. He highlighted his state’s holistic cybersecurity approach based on the notion that attacks on the local level could have ripple effects on larger government entities. […]
Raad Saleh, the head of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service Ground Enterprise Study, said the current approach the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency takes to satellite-based data collection, processing and dissemination is unsustainable in the long run. Currently, NOAA establishes a unique ground system for each data collection mission it performs, an […]
Harry Coker is an operating partner at C5 Capital, a London-based venture capital firm that funds businesses in the cybersecurity, energy security and space industries. He is also an adviser at Primis Principiis, an outside director at JSI, a senior fellow at the McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and a research fellow […]
Raouf Guirguis is the chairman and CEO of BioTechPharma, a point-of-care nanotechnology company headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. It offers a medical sample collection and testing platform for on-site use. A member of the Potomac Officers Club, he holds several patents in sample collection, molecular diagnostics and early cancer detection. Firms such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and […]
SteelCloud and Telos have entered into a partnership to provide a consolidated platform for organizations looking to comply with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework. RMF is a seven-step process that adds security, privacy and cyber supply chain risk management elements to system development. The alliance aims to offer services for […]
The Federal Communications Commission will move forward with changes to Section 222 of the Communications Act that would impose stricter and more specific reporting requirements regarding breaches to service providers who store their customers’ personal information. According to the agency, a seven-day deadline for telecommunications carriers to disclose potential data leaks could be abolished in […]
