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Sharon Payne-Young: Director of System Integrators – Public Sector Channels at IronNet Cybersecurity

Sharon Payne-Young is the director of System Integrators – Public Sector Channels at IronNet Cybersecurity, working out of Wilmington, North Carolina. She serves as a trusted adviser to members of the defense industrial base and federal government agencies on cybersecurity-related topics, according to her LinkedIn profile. Payne-Young has been working at Virginia-headquartered IronNet for only […]
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DOD Acquisition Officials Call for Private Sector-Style Procurement Strategy

Ranking acquisition officials at the Department of Defense have expressed hopes that future procurement strategies can be patterned after private industry, which deploys new technologies faster. Christopher O’Donnell, who is performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said that the highly successful middle-tier acquisition pathway programs reflect the more dynamic approach to […]
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ACT Receives NASA Funding to Develop Thermal Control Solutions for Moon Missions

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded Pennsylvania-based Advanced Cooling Technologies $5 million in funding to develop thermal control solutions that will enable vehicles and other equipment to survive harsh lunar environments without an active power source. The thermal solutions provider said it will use the NASA Sequential Phase II SBIR Program Award funding […]
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Garrett Lee, Director of Federal Security Sales and Operations at VMware Carbon Black

Garrett Lee is the director of federal security sales and operations at VMware Carbon Black, working out of Reston, Virginia. His current role sees him leading a team in helping federal and federal systems integrator customers gain advantages by enhancing, consolidating and modernizing mission-critical cyber capabilities and operations, according to his LinkedIn profile. Lee has […]
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Kratos Receives $51M Award for More BQM-177A Aerial Target Drones

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its unmanned aerial systems business has been awarded a $51 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of additional units of an advanced, high-subsonic, recoverable aerial target drone system. The modification exercises an option to procure 65 BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Target drones. The acquisition […]
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Air Force Seeks to Expand Use of AI, Gaming Technologies for Decision-Making

The Air Force Research Laboratory announced its intention to overhaul its air operations and planning procedures by mixing artificial intelligence-driven planning with interactive gaming to significantly cut the Air Tasking Order planning cycle. In a presolicitation notice released Monday, the Air Force called on the industry to help it use AI and gaming technologies to […]
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